But don’t expect the police to face any repercussions or be held to account. It is now a well-established legal principle in the federal courts that in spite of the marketing gimmick motto of “Protect and Serv
Police - Law Enforcement, Reforms, History: Understood broadly as a deliberate undertaking to enforce common standards within a community and to protect it from internal predators, policing is much older than the creation of a specialized armed force dev
"The police have a positive legal obligation under human rights legislation to protect life, which shapes our approach to responding to suspected firearms." An internal investigation by the Metropolitan Police found no misconduct had been committed by the officers involved. A further complaint...
Society has entrusted the police with power and obligation to enforce law, maintain order and protect its members and the legal order of society. To be able to fulfil these obligations the police need credible means of countering threats against these values. Selecting the weapons, or rather use...
“In my judgment, the actions of these officers fell far short of that obligation, and they do not reflect the high standards to which I know our police officers hold themselves to every day as they put their lives on the line to protect and serve our residents and keep ou...
Indeed, the UK Human Rights Act (1998) creates a legal obligation for the police to facilitate the rights of freedom of expression, consciousness and assem- bly that are protected under Articles 9, 10 and 11 of the ECHR. The Act states that 'no restrictions shall be placed on the ...
Nevertheless, it may be responded that while the could-have-done-otherwise element of the agent's action does not lessen our obligation to prevent it, it does open up alternative methods of prevention. It might be thought, for example, that campaigns focusing on would- be offenders may be ...
How much time and money must be spent redacting (blurring or removing) portions of BWC video to protect someone's privacy? How much time will be consumed responding to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests? The Seattle (Washington) Police Department temporarily stopped its BWC project ...
In fact, police received little training in law, and most of those arrested were tried before justices who also had little legal train- ing. Police were part of the larger political system, seen as a resource at the com- mand of local political organizations. In the early period, it was...
Perry did accept that in relation to Article 8 (the right to private and family life), senior managers had not done enough to supervise the operation and so protect Kate from excessive intrusion. However, he maintained the argument that management had little reason to express concern over Kenned...