Scenario City

A car drives past you. You can't quite see, but you think that the driver might have been talking on his mobile phone. He might just have been scratching his ear - you're not sure you actually saw a phone at all. You notice that the car also has a brake light out, and decide that it's worth stopping for some general snooping about. You caution the driver and ask whether he was using his phone, and he replies that he was on the phone to a friend (you record the interview and he signs it). He is extremely cooperative, makes no attempt to wriggle out of it, and apologises immediately. Would you issue an EFPN, or words of advice? This is a real scenario and I gave him …

Mr and Mrs Smith are married and live together. Mr Smith has been diagnosed with clinical depression and anxiety by his doctor. Mrs Smith is a police officer. Mr Smith is prescribed diazepam (valium) by his doctor to medicate his depression and anxiety. One night he is laying in bed awake and is feeling very uptight, tense and tearful. He says 'darling, my pills are downstairs on the table. Please can you get them for me?' Mrs Smith does as asked, fetching them and giving the box to Mr Smith. Mrs Smith is aware the diazepam is a controlled drug, because she is a police officer. What (if any) offences are committed?

In a thread on the legality of knives themselves, it was beginning to go off topic and people were talking about a scenario in which a person was searched, a knife found, but they didn't give their name or address. The scenario is you become aware that a MOP has a knife (A legal one, requiring no good reason to carry) in a public place, and they don't give you a name or address, and the discussion started to revolve around whether that would be suspicion enough to arrest? The problem I see with asking someone to justify carrying a legal knife is that the law doesn't require them to do it, so whatever reason they give has no real bearing (Unless they admit possessing it t…

MrDSP drives a large saloon car and before putting Mrs MrDSP on the insurance he wants to know if she can drive it or not. Just out of town there is a road, it has a few houses on and is owned by a wealthy man who made a fortune inventing bottle caps, the road was replaced by a bypass many years ago, and is no longer maintained by the council (no markings and very old signs at one end). The road is used by a few people, mainly to take new drivers for a basic lesson and the Police do drive down it sometimes (like most people do, to beat the que at a junction) - the road has two dead ends where it was replaced by the bypass and two roads that now cut through it. The Poli…

Mr & Mrs Miggings live in house with an integral garage. One day while Mr Miggins is out at work, Mrs Miggins decides she want to go for a ride on her bicycle, which is in the garage, but can't get to it because Mr Miggins 1969 MG Sprite is in the way. Mrs Miggins finds the keys to the Sprite and backs it out on to the drive which has a slight gradient then drops quite steeply down to the road. She parks it up and pops the keys in her pocket. She gets the bike out and knowing she won't be out long, decides to leave the Sprite where it is. Mrs Miggins goes out for her ride on her bicycle. When she returns 45 minutes later there is an ambulance parked across the road a…

You are off duty You are driving along and a taxi driver cuts you up, you instinctively do an emergency stop and bib your horn at the same time. It is just before some traffic lights. you come to a stop at the traffic lights and he starts shouting at you threatening to kick you in, you ignore and wind up your window. Lights turn green then another traffic lights 100m and he does the same and you ignore except he gets out his car after swearing at you..... what would you do?

I was asked yesterday by one of the prisoner handling team what I would have done in this scenario and couldnt think of anything better than BoP. So here is your chance to get creative... A landlord & landlady of a pub have a live-in bar manager. The manager comes home late one night after the pub has closed. He is drunk and doesn't fancy going to bed. He sits in the bar wating TV (or such like). NOT touching the stock. Waking the landlord and landlady they are not pleased by his behavior and ask him to leave. He does not. Police are called to deal. Any ideas? Not licensing since bar not open & he lives there.

BILL works in a betting shop, they sell hot and cold drinks, but no food like chocolate bars and crisps! BILL decides to go to a wholesaler and buys boxes of chocolate and crisps to sell in the shop, he buys them out of his own money, and keeps the money from the sales for himself. Has he committed any offences?

Had this scenario recently. Domestic incident at an address. Arrive at address, speak to female who is on the sofa clearly distressed. She says that her partner who is named on the tennancy came home rather drunk this evening and they had an argument. The female said that she had not been assaulted and she had been sworn at several times and she felt scared. The male had gone upstairs to bed however when we arrived he woke up and we spoke with him. He exaplined the same sort of thing that they had an argument but no offences were alledged. You feel as though you can not leave them together for this evening as she feels scared and there is also a 1 year old child asle…

Not and entirely fictional situation, happened to a boy in my year in high school. Other boys thought he was gay, so they would sexually touch him under the table to see if he enjoyed it etc he didn't and he went to a teacher and they asked him if he wanted to get the police involved and he said no, months later the boy changed his mind. Would his allegation still be able to be used ? Or would the 'case' be affected by him changing his mind? Daniel

Scenario: You are on duty in PLAIN CLOTHES when you observe a member of the public commiting an offence. You approach the MOP and identify yourself according to GOWISELY - show warrant card, say that you are a police officer and which station you belong to. The MOP states that they are not willing to cooperate unless you request a uniformed officer to attend immediately. The reason they give is that they saw a poster in a TFL underground station, published by Royal Parks OCU, giving advice about fraudsters. The poster states that you should be weary of plain clothes individuals claiming to be police officers and that you should always request for a uniformed officer t…

Hello, this is my first time posting in here, so I apologise if I've posted in the wrong section. I received a phone call quite late yesterday evening to say that my 16 year old brother was beaten up on his way home from his friends house. From what I was told, my brother was walking home and two men who were approx 30 years of age started saying 'what are you doing around here, this is my area, who are you'. My brother said that he responded by saying 'its not got anything to do with you who i am, im just walking home'. One of the men then proceeded to put him in a head lock and strangled his, leaving bruises around his throat, whilst the other man kicked him to the gr…

You receive information about a group of youths who hang around on the corner of a residential street, during night hours they stop people walking down the street telling them that they "Own this street and you have to pay us to walk down it!" Although no violence is used or threatened would this be considered robbery as anyone would expect violence to follow if their demand isn't met?

I just read an interesting thread about stopping an unmarked police car for a traffic violation. That brought me to this question..... Hypothetically: You're on patrol and you follow a car that is traveling well above the posted speed limit. Upon contact with the driver, you discover that he is an off duty police officer traveling in his personal car. Would you write him up or let him go? In my country, we have an unwritten rule that in this situation, we would issue a verbal warning, shake hands and go our separate ways. Do you guys do the same?

Recently a member of staff at a branch in the South East has been approached on two separate occasions whilst walking in the street by an individual, who made some ‘small talk’ before asking the member of staff if he could get them some ‘profiles.’ By profiles the individual is believed to requesting customer information and quite rightly the member of staff rejected this request. The individual responded with ‘not even for a nice sum.’ Again the member of staff declined this offer and apparently the individual walked away. Is there any offence here by the person asking someone to obtain account details for them?