The police have reacted in a variety of ways. These range from threatening protesters with arrest for holding up a blank piece of paper to arresting them for a breach of the peace or on suspicion of statutory offences such as Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986 or Section 5 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing, and Courts Act 2022. (PCSC).
This article covers three important you can do if you're in a police misconduct situation. Although some of them will be difficult in the moment, if done properly they will help your case in court.
After an acrimonious dispute between the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEX) and its regulator, Cilex Regulation Ltd. (CRL), and a Law Society Gazette discussion on LinkedIn about how CLEs are viewed by recruiters and solicitors, there is a live debate about the role of CLEs in law firms.
Home Secretary Priti Patel announced at this year's Police Federation annual conference that approximately 8,900 special constables (who, despite their title of "constable," are actually unpaid, amateur volunteers) will be authorised to use Taser weapons.
This week His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services published a report titled: “An inspection of vetting, misconduct, and misogyny in the police service.” It found that hundreds of police officers who should have failed vetting checks may still be in the job.
