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The core duty of the police service is to protect the public by detecting and preventing crime. This duty is established in common law (precedents set by decisions of the courts) and the police have both common law and legislative powers to execute it.
The core duty of the police service is to protect the public by detecting and preventing crime. This duty is established in common law (precedents set by decisions of the courts) and the police have both common law and legislative powers to execute it. The use of police powers must be compatible with human rights and equalities legislation.
Under the Crown, the unifying principle of our constitution is the common law. The common law’s distinctive method has endowed the British state with profoundly beneficial effects. In this Lecture I will explain why this is so. I will say that by force of the common law, efficacy is allowed but
13 Σεπ 2024 · Common law, the body of customary law, based on judicial decisions and embodied in reports of decided cases, that has been administered by the courts of England since the Middle Ages. From it has evolved the legal systems found in the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries as well.
24 Νοε 2023 · Sir Edward defined ‘policy’ as ‘the means and methods of carrying out [police] duties and to the preparations to be made for doing this effectively’. On those matters, the police were subject to ‘general supervision and direction’ by the Home Office.
Common law: the UK has what’s known as a ‘common law’ system, meaning that judges declare the law as derived from custom and precedent. Although it is the role of the courts to interpret the rules, not to make them; in practice, through identifying what the law is, judges can create it.
13 Φεβ 2020 · We thus examined the remaining cases to determine whether they generated a new common law police power using the ancillary police powers test or if they altered significantly a common law police power in a way that previous courts had not entertained.
