Scenario City

Any advice on a specific area of law is from either currently-serving UK police officers, and is offered to the best of their ability, or from members of the public who are perhaps aspiring to be serving police officers and may not hold the necessary level of knowledge to provide such assistance or by any other member who may offer their opinion. Either way such advice can only be treated as an opinion and nothing more. The information is based on their own individual experiences, expertise and training. It is stressed, however, that if any information or advice found in these forums is used by any person or organisation, then the respective police officer(s) and sta…

Found this while scrolling though Facebook. I'm not sure if you have ever seen this male on YouTube but he's a vegan activist who sets up displays in public areas trying to educate people on the slaughter house practices. On this occasion a member of the public has called the police wanting to complaint about the images on the TV monitor of the slaughter house. The officers attended and got the male Joe to turn the monitors off saying it was an offence. Were the officers right in their interpretation of the law? Did the male Joe make a valid point about him showing was legal practices to educate people so why would it be an offence. I have …

Hello all, I've returned to the forum (formerly 'Quartermaster'). Am not a police officer/emergency services. Recently went for a holiday, drove down in my own car (with family inside) the motorway, wet weather and was doing about 60/65 mph in the slow lane. Then a box van, travelling in the fast lane, rapidly turned and violently hit the crash barrier (the concrete version), he went up in the air and then bonnet came to rest on barrier. I was only about two cars behind, but two lanes away. I put my hazard lights on, reduced speed to about 20/15 mph, and managed to negotiate the slowing traffic to my immediate front, as well as traffic merging from the…

This is a new one for me and I was wondering if anyone else have dealt with this. I attended a report from enforcement officers stating that they were requesting police attendance to prevent a breach of the peace as they were waning to remove travilers from private land. On police arrival the enforcement officers stated that they were going to use common law to evict the travilers with little notice. When officers questioned this and why their wasn't a court order... The enforcement officers stated that they didn't need one as Trespass was now part of "Tort law" under the Criminal justice and public order act. It's safe to say that there was much discu…

Hello, a common scenario: You're an officer, and you are asked to attend the station office to perform a front counter arrest. Namely, a person has attended the station who is wanted for an offence. Therefore, you use your power of arrest under Sec 24 of PACE. Unfortunately, your station isn't a custody facility so the detainee will have to be taken to another station by vehicle. What (if any) power do you have to search the detainee (prior to arrival at custody)?

Was it wrong for CS gas to be used on the protesters? From the looks of video, it was excessive. what is a justified use of CS spray or PAVA spray that police use today? The protesters were not throwing stones or being rowdy. I feel sorry for the protesters. It is not like they were violent. The introduction of CS gas prompted widespread criticism.

I still can't get my head around data protection breaches. In an Enforcement role a question has been raised which was is it a day protection breach to inform a victim that a perpertaror has had a caution? Should the victim be given this information or should they be told that the highest actions possible have been taken. If the perpertaror complains that the victim has caused him distress by telling others he has recieved a caution does this justify a data protection breach? I thought it wouldn't be a problem to update a victim with actions taken but this has thrown a new spanner in the works.

Could an EAS (electronic article surveillance) alarm give security staff reasonable grounds to any persons arrest for theft if the shopper did not want to return to the store, or to be searched by security? Bare in mind, they have not witnessed any theft. Only the alarm has sounded on somebody exiting.

Friend set up business did not tell employer. Business a training company approved by Govt and promoted by Govt. courses payed for by Govt. part of friends job is to look at applicants and if needed recommend courses. Paid for by Govt. you guessed it, he referred some applicants to his own training company. training provided, invoiced and paid. employer found out referred to local pc. Who interviewed them. has fraud been committed?

Hello If a member of the public dials 999 from Wolverhampton with concern for the welfare of a friend living in Wandsworth could they ever be transferred to the Met directly? Would they, in fact, be in London. I appreciate the 999 dispatchers could take the details and then refer them across to the met to dispatch LAS and responders- but would that show on CAD? Does anyone know what any of these codes on a CAD refer to Incident No: 56B6 entered at 15.14/29jun05 by 072704/WW101 in DIV-WW Sector: WH ( division WW) ( DIV at 15.15/29June05: W0) De-assign WP25 WH26 WW1 WL3 WW5 WH88 53 IRB's by 777WW and 129WW Linked: explicitly to 6792:…

David is 24 year old male, a member of the public called the police stating that Dave was acting suspicious on a public street corner. Police attend and Dave was stopped and searched, located on Dave's person was a 2 and half inch kitchen knife. He didn't have a reasonable excuse or lawful reason for possessing it appear from "he found it on the floor" The knife was only in their pocket it wasnt being used offensively... The question is, is Dave committing an offence of carrying a bladed article? Does the law only seems to make exception to a folding pocket knife 3 inches or under? So is any sized kitchen knife an offence to carry in public? Who would arrest …