Law Presentation: UK Criminal Law - Search, Arrest, and Detention

This presentation delves into the intricacies of UK criminal law, focusing on the procedures and policies surrounding the search of individuals, premises, open spaces, and vehicles, as well as the processes of arrest and detention. It examines the roles and responsibilities of the police, emphasizing the importance of adhering to legal guidelines, including those outlined in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE). The presentation highlights the skills and abilities required of police officers in these situations, including effective interviewing techniques and the proper execution of search warrants. Case law, such as the murder of Paige Doherty, is used to illustrate the practical application of these legal principles. The presentation concludes by summarizing the key concepts and emphasizing the importance of conducting searches, arrests, and detentions in accordance with the law to protect individual rights and freedoms.

Law, Evidence & Procedure

INTRODUCTION
• Criminal law is a branch of law under the legal system which deal
with the offences of serious nature and crimes related with assault,
battery, robbery, murder, rape etc.
• To prosecute criminal who have committee an offence includes a
long process with inclusion of various authorities participating in it.
• The procedure starts with arresting the offenders and passing a
judgement over the crime and criminal by the court, keeping the
offenders under prison custody and end with releasing and
community services of such person.

CONTD…
• In this presentation, a discussion related with policies and concept of
searching of individual, premise, open space and vehicle will be
done along with provisions related with arrest and detention of
persons.
• Furthers, the ability and skills to be practices by the police in the
above methionine matters is also presented.

1. Understanding the theoretical concepts relating to the
attendance at the incidents, premises, arrest and the
open spaces
Attendance at incidents refers to the Investigative task for searching the
individual premises which could lead to the detention and the arrest of the
person.
Identifying the physical evidence, coltasks must be practiced by the police with high level of theInterviewing the suspect

CONTD…
The guidelines that need to be followed by the police for searching are
as follows-
 Appropriate search warrant that must be issued by the authorized
officer.
 Police personnel must bear accurate, clear and visible identification
and the name tags with the appropriate designations.
 An entry should be made in diary

CONTD…
Thus, the police interviewing must be effective of the suspect is the
critical component of the major investigations relating to the crime.
 It is the most challenging task of the police due to it involves
interactions complexities.
 The interviewing of the witness plays a major role in the justice
process of criminal proceedings.
 The quantity and the quality of the information gathered from the
victim interviews have a direct impact on the basis of which the
suspect get arrested.
 These above guidelines and the policies relating to the searching and
the detentions directs the police in performing his duty with
compliance of all the rules that are provided in the UK criminal law.

2. Demonstration of Skills and ability
under professional practice
Events of applicability of professional practices to following:
• Catching an offender by the police.
• Police officers have a duty to stop such crime
• Potential suspects are investigated and interviewed
• Police officers are bestowed with certain duties and responsibility

CONTD…
Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE)
• Attendance at incidents:
• Searching of individuals:
• Searching of vehicles:
• Searching of premise, house and open space:
• Arrest and detention of persons:

Conclusion
• In conclusion to this presentation, it can be stated that the policies
and concept under the legal framework are distinct from each other.
• For searching of individual, vehicle premise must be carried out as
per the laws. In this presence of reasonable grounds are required to
conduct a search without infringement of the privacy rights and
freedom of expression of the person under search.
• Moreover it has been interpreted in the report the skill and ability for
search, arrest and detention are bestowed on the police officers.
They have bee assigned as authority to carry out such work.

CONTD…
• Moreover the police officers are also responsible to conduct the
search on as person, vehicle, primes or open space on reasonable
gourds and suspect of crime commitment.
• The arrest and detention must be carried out after significant
investigation and presenting the reason for arrests and on where
there is possibility of commencement of crime by a person.

Case law: The murder of Paige
Doherty
Demonstrating the knowledge and
understanding over case:
 In iths case the underpined rules of arrest
and search incudes:
 Search, arrest and custody of the criminal
attempts of John.

Continued...
 The police investigated the case t by initiating a detailed search operation.
 In the vicinity form where Paige was missing.
 On subsection the John to be murdered, he was arrested immateriality.
 The recordings of store camera were searched.
 The fact revealed that he threatened Paige not to tell about about his
inappropriate behaviour else she would lose her job.
 Upon this the suspecting was confirmed he was being put under custody
where he admitted to committee murder.