Importance Of Stop And Search

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Stop and Search

This essay will critically discuss the importance of police ethics in relation to stop and search. Police ethics explained in dictionaries are a set of principles of right conduct, a theory or a system of moral values, the rules or standards governing the conduct of a persons or members of a profession. As a police officer you are holding a higher standard than the public is. You take an oath to protect and serve and part of your duties as an offices is to be above reproach on duty and off duty. All 43 police forces in UK have rules for officers to regulate what you can and cannot do as an officers. This regulations in essence is to protect the police force and the responsibilities as a police officer you must be aware of …show more content…

The Police has many laws which gives them power stop and search, however the most frequently used are those under section 1 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, section 47 of Firearms Act 1968 and sections 44(1) and 44(2) of Terrorism Act 2000, section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 and section 23 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. Vehicles they might be stopped under section 163 Road Traffic Act 1988 and search under section 4 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act …show more content…

This use of power has no minimum requirement of suspicion. However section 4 PACE it authorises the police officers to search vehicles where is a reasonable ground of suspicion, that in the vehicle is carrying a person who has committed an offence or is about to commit an offence other than a road traffic offence. The vehicles can be also held or detained to search. Ones the vehicle has been stopped, section 1 PACE comes into play where the power of search on reasonable suspicion is that there are stolen of prohibited articles into vehicle or the driver has consumed alcohol or there is a reasonable suspicion the officer can conduct a breath test. The mix of laws section 163 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 and section 4 PACE it gives the police the power to stop vehicles randomly and without suspicion in order to prevent an imminent breach of the

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