Scenario City
This area of the forum is dedicated to scenarios - "what if" discussions based on real or imagined policing situations. Post your own or answer an existing scenario!
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I'm currently following a discussion at the moment of a Facebook crime forum. Somebody on that forum wants to share CCTV of a suspect committing a burglary. The admin on that forum is refusing to share the footage as it breaches data protection. Is there any issues with someone with private home CCTV circulating the footage on social media to assist in identifying the suspect? Can this compromise a police investigation or the resulting court hearings? Does circulating CCTV of a male breaking into a house in fact breach someone's data protection, especially with the new General data protection rules ?
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The scenario is: It's the early hours, approx 0330hrs in the morning and a serviceman has returned to his base after a night out and is drunk. In his drunken state he is starting to swear fairly loudly and is generally obnoxious. The base is closed to the public, and he is far from earshot of any public place, but he is surrounded by accommodation blocks of which are solely occupied by other serviceman. What offences (civil or military) are present and what would be the most effective disposal methods for dealing with him?
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Evening all, Just to give you a quick background, I am a meagre Special training at Sully at the moment and attesting on 17th June so my law knowledge is far from extensive! The following scenario is something I can't really figure out from reading my textbook: A homeless man walks through the open front door of somebody's house with no other intention other than taking a nap on the homeowner's sofa. Understandably, the homeowner does not want the homeless man sleeping in their living room and asks him to leave. The homeless man calmly remains on the sofa and says "No". He shows no signs of being under the influence of drugs or alcohol and doesn't even rai…
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Last week a report of theft dropped into the box from NaVCIS (I work in a crime management unit). In a nutshell a local chap has taken out finance on a vehicle, made 9 payments and then stopped paying, cancelling the DD. The fiance company can't find the vehicle. The fiance company reported it to NaVCIS who have then forwarded to us to record as a theft. The vehicle doesn't appear to have been sold on, still registered to the chap who took out the finance First time I've seen a report like this and my initial thought this is a civil matter, breach of contract. A view shared by an ex CPS lawyer my force contracts to offer legal advice on cases. I contacted the NaVC…
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After the nerve agent poisoning in Salisbury what would you do if you found a bottle of strange liquid?
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You are called to a shop about shoplifting and the suspect is a police officer in uniform. What do you do?
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Out on duty in full uniform in a marked patrol vehicle, you are stationary and talking with a group of youths on a large field which is used for parking during summer months. You spot a vehicle to the far side of the field (lets say a black bmw 1 series) drive toward a group of other parked up vehicles at speed and perform a doughnut in front of them. The driver then spots you and takes off and leaves the scene. By the time you make your way back to the highway to catch up with the vehicle it has gone. You spend a few minutes searching the immediate area but to no avail. You decide to return to the area of the incident and immediately notice that a bla…
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If there was a murder and the body was found between England and Scotland, who would carry out the investigation?
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You are called to reports of a man being attacked and you arrive on scene to find out the victim is being attacked by a former war prisoner and the assault victim is a war criminal. What legislation do you arrest the assault victim under?
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You’re doing door to door enquiries for a local burglary. You knock on a flat door and a male answers. He’s clearly stoned and his flat stinks of cannabis? what do you do?
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You get called to assist the fire service as they have been turned out to a electrical house fire with smoke coming from one of the bedroom windows... The reason why they are asking for your assistance is because they have located a number of cannabis farms in the building, hence the reason for the fire in the first place. They say that the building occupier has made off from scene.... On your arrival the fire has been put out and you go inside the house to examine the farm set up... To your suprise you find in the first room you check, Bob, the house occupier coverd in smoke, ash and mud... [emoji848] You arrest him for cannabis cultervation and place…
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A + B have a heated argument and both admit to taking cocaine prior. A has serious injuries and cannot account for at least 11 hours of the day and has been found wondering the street in an hysterical manner. Ultimately B is attested for attempt murder on A based on her initial disclosures that of how she was attacked/possibly drugged and nearly drown in a bath. She has injuries consistent. Evidence shows the h/a is consistent with a struggle between A+B and drug paraphernalia found. The drug used is unknown at the time. Do we have any power to take a blood specimen from A either with or without her consent to toxicology analysis?? She is an IP. Ho…
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So a few thoughts on the best way to tackle this would be helpful and thanks in advance. Driver has dog on lap and is driving a vehicle whilst operating the pedals but dog has both paws on steering wheel whilst, for decent periods of time, the owner has no hands on steering wheel. All of this is being recorded by front seat passenger on mobile phone and has inevitably been uploaded to social media, shared to anonymous persons and reported to police. Driver can be identified from the footage...no ID issues at all. It is a public road but the exact location can not be identified at this time (no obvious landmarks etc). Driver is on the left side of the carri…
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Billy and Bob are neighbors. For the last 4 years or so billy and Bob have had a neighbor dispute over various things such as overhanging trees, noise, damage to property and other such disputes. It's fair to say billy and Bob do not like each other and the police have been involved several times. Both their houses have CCTV as to either catch the other neighbor our or to try and negate any allergies made about them. On this occasion, Billy has been complaining about Bob's parking on the grass verge and tearing it up. You know the grass that separates the drop down curb from footpath to footpath, normally inbetween houses. In annoyance of Bob parking on th…
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The Rock Fight made me think of a real situation for which I would be interested in people's views. Billy and Bobby share a private road for access to their property, neither owns the road. This road has a grass verge. Bobby has told his many friends who visit him to park with two wheels on the verge. Billy takes umbrage with this and tells Bobby to tell his friends to park elsewhere. Billy puts 'No Parking' signs up. Bobby tells his friends to ignore them. Billy gets some metal rods, about 15mm diameter and bangs them into the grass verge so about 2 inches stick out. They are nigh on impossible to see unless you look for them. A visitor to Bobby drives onto the v…
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