Instruction Book for the Guidance of the Metropolitan Police Force1925 - Police - 292 pages |
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Popular passages
Page 78 - Any constable or peace officer may take into custody, without a warrant, any person whom he shall find lying or loitering in any highway, yard, or other place during the night...
Page 6 - To these ends all the efforts of police must be directed. The protection of life and property, the preservation of public tranquillity, and the absence of crime will alone prove whether those efforts have been successful, and whether the objects for which the police were appointed have been maintained.
Page 100 - Person, or shall rob any Person, and at the Time of or immediately before or immediately after such Robbery, shall wound, beat, strike, or use any other personal Violence, to any Person...
Page 146 - ... by reason of his criminal habits or tendencies, or association with persons of bad character, it is expedient that he should be subject to detention for such term and under such instruction and discipline as appears most conducive to his reformation and the repression of crime...
Page 69 - ... (1) When a police officer is endeavouring to discover the author of a crime, there is no objection to his putting questions in respect thereof to any person or persons, whether suspected or not, from whom he thinks that useful information can be obtained.
Page 118 - Every person who shall use any threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behaviour with intent to provoke a breach of the peace, or whereby a breach of the peace may be occasioned : 14.
Page 69 - Having heard the evidence, do you wish to say anything in answer to the charge? You are not obliged to say anything unless you desire to do so, but whatever you say will be taken down in writing, and may be given in evidence against you upon your trial...
Page 114 - No person shall frequent and use any street or other public place on behalf, either of himself or of any other person, for the purpose of bookmaking or betting, or. wagering, or agreeing to bet or wager, with any person, or paying, or receiving, or settling bets...
Page 69 - ... 2. Whenever a police officer has made up his mind to charge a person with a crime he should first caution such person before asking any questions or any further questions as the case may be.