Police Powers in Investigations

• Entrapment

  A person ends up committing an offence that they would have not committed otherwise, largely as a result of pressure or cunning part of the police.
• What are the pros to entrapment?

  Those proactive techniques, entrapment, can be effective and cost-efficient use of personnel. They can also help prevent crime in "victimless" offences of the sort that are unlikely to generate citizen complaints.
• What is the issue with entrapment? Why is it controversial?

  The issue with entrapment is the fact between catching those habitually involved in lawbreaking and creates situational criminal.
• What did the SCC say regarding entrapment?

  The SCC said, regarding entrapment:

  • "Entrapment is completely separate from the issue of guilt or innocence. It is concerned with the conduct of the police and is dealt with at separate proceeding from the trial on the merits."
• Mr. Big Technique

  An investigative strategy design to secure confessions from crime suspects through the creation of an elaborate scenario.