Scenario City

Ultimately one for lawyers I guess: Use/cause/permit only seems to apply (from memory, been out of the game for a few years!) to certain motor offences, but would anything apply criminally (other than health and safety offences) to this set up: Driver pulled for being all over the place, passes a breath test, admits they may be hypo due to their insulin dependant diabetes. This opens (according to DVLA) a raft of possible offences for the driver in itself. Driver admits not following the DVLA & their own regime for drivers with this condition (proving most of these offences) but points out that their employer scheduled their work day and targets such it…

Would a 'Lives' first responder vehicle fitted with blue lights be permitted to: A. Use them on a public highway B. Drive faster than PSL LIVES is Lincolnshire Volunteer Emergency Service.

Is it an offence to have a vehicle parked and on a road or public place that is uninsured. The vehicle has tax and mot, just not insured... Has the law changed?

Hassan murders his wife for adultry, throwing her body into the sea. Benjamin - the wife's boyfriend - attempts to kill Hassan. After poisoning, electrocution and knocking him out, doesn't kill him. Hassan is then dumped outside a hospital miles away with no ID Hassan isn't dead but is in a coma.. What charges is Benjamin facing, would there be extenuating circumstances? How would you go about establishing Hassans name etc....

You stop a vehicle, which contains an asylum seeker. They produce a licence from their home country along with a UK provisional. They have been in the county since 2016 and were granted permanent residence in 2018. The vehicle is all in order. Is the asylum seeker/resident driving legally?

Vehicle fails to stop and runs a number of red lights. Stopped 45 mins later. Front facing Dash cam has memory card. Power to seize to assist in proving offence ...???

Car stopped on false plates. The original vehicle is NOT stolen when identified. Showed as being in trade and no tea likelihood of tracing actual owner/keeper...pool vehicle. Driver has provisional ... DOTIAWAL. No insurance. No Mot. In relation to the plates...theft never going to be proved...No IP. It is displaying another VRM. The owner of other vehicle has Not has their plates stolen. Vehicle seized 165. Any specific offence re the plate? Driver pleaded ignorance and stated it was brought ‘a few weeks ago randomly on Facebook blah blah’ ...

Driver stopped behind the wheel having left club intoxicated. Able to answer questions (just about) and specifically refuses roadside test. Arrested for fail to provide. In custody, refuses to blow evidently and is simply obstructive throughout. No doctors, only alcohol suspected, checked throughout the night, no mention of anything other than wanting to go home. Charged with fail to provide when sober. No reply to caution. On way home states (for the first time) that they think they had been ‘spiked’. Officers, who had no dealings at all and were just the taxi, allegedly told them to call back in when home. Inexperienced call-taker picks up call and informs…

Staffordshire Police had warned drivers to be on the lookout for someone in a black car with flashing blue lights posing as a policeman An investigation revealed the off-duty officer stopped the vehicle, which police said was being ridden in a dangerous manner. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-45111645

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-45770028 "A stencil spray painting by elusive artist Banksy shredded itself after it was sold for more than £1m." Is it criminal damage? By Banksy? Or is it considered part of the art piece, as it was part of the frame and is sold as seen?

You are called by the duty manager of a shopping centre who reports that someone has spat on the floor of a shopping centre and the person is still present. Given that it is private property are there any offences there? What do you do?

Bob owns a car which is not in the best of shapes and gives off clouds of smoke from the exhaust as he drives around. Does he commit any offences? If you were on duty and came across him what would you do?