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Police service and investigate

Members of the police force behaving inappropriately can lead to a member of the public suffering negative consequences. I shall now give an example of a situation in which this can occur. A police officer doesn't carry out all the checks necessary after a violent burglary has taken place, this results in not collecting enough evidence to find the suspect. And therefore the case is left unsolved. Later on there is another burglary which takes places in the area by the same original burglar. In this case the home owner sustains serious injuries.

Codes of Practice

Evaluate the protection given to persons taken into custody for questioning by the police. Do you think it is adequate? zl The police are given various powers to investigate crime. However, it may be at the expense of individual’s rights. The laws are mainly contained in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE)1984 and the Codes of Practice. Before PACE, police powers was spread across 70 Acts of Parliaments which caused much confusion of what they could and couldn’t do, and may have led to police abusing powers.