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Violent Offences

Murder

Common Law

Common Assault

Section 39, Criminal Justice Act 1988

Assault of an emergency worker

Section 1, Assaults on Emergency Workers Act 2018

Conspiracy to commit Murder

Section 4, Offences Against the Person Act 1861

Threats to kill

Section 16, Offences against the Person Act 1861

Threatening violence

Section 4, Public Order Act

Stealing / Theft

Theft

Section 1, Theft Act 1968

Theft of a Vehicle

Section 12, Theft Act 1986

Robbery

Section 8, Theft Act 1968

Being Carried (as a passenger) in a Stolen vehicle 

Section 12, Theft Act 1968

Possession of

Possession of Firearm

Section 5, Firearms Act 1968

Possession of a Bladed Article

Section 139, Criminal Justice Act 1988

Possession of drugs

Section 5, Misuse of Drugs Act 1971

Below 10g

Possession of drugs with intent to supply

Section 4, Misuse of Drugs Act 1971

Above 10g

Possession of an offensive weapon

Section 141, Criminal Justice Act 1988

Money Laundering - (Bills/Rolls)

Section 7, Proceeds Of Crime Act 2002

Driving

Drink driving (DUI)

Section 5, Road Traffic Act 1988

Running Red Light

Section 36, Road Traffic Act 1988

Careless Driving

Section 3, Road Traffic Act 1988

Failing to stop

Section 163, Road Traffic Act 1988

Speeding

Section 89, Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984

Power by police to stop any vehicle / bike or bicycle on the road.

Section 163 Road Traffic Act, 1988

Power by police to compel license or ID handover at a traffic stop.

Section 164 Road Traffic Act, 1988

Other Laws

Indecent Exposure

Section 66, Sexual Offences Act 2003

Fraud by False Representation

Section 2, Fraud Act 2006

Harassment

Section 1, Protection from Harassment Act 1997

Causing Harassment, Alarm or Distress

Section 5, Public Order Act 1986

Intentionally causing Harassment, Alarm or Distress

Section 4a, Public Order Act 1986

Impersonation of a Police Officer

Section 90, Police Act 1996

Wasting Police Time

Section 5, Criminal Law Act 1967

Obstruction Of Police / Impeding an Active Police Investigation

Section 89, Police Act 1996

Trespassing

Section 69, Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994

Detainment

Section 41, Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984

You may detain them for up to 24 hours if there are valid grounds to investigate crimes. Use this power carefully.

Possession of drugs

Section 5, Misuse of Drugs Act 1971

Gang Affiliation

Section 45, Serious Crime Act 2015

Police Searches

PACE = Police And Criminal Evidence Act 1984

Search procedures are equal whether male or female. ((Should not have to say this but if you make players feel uncomfortable and make searches weird expect permanent deportation))

• Section 1 - PACE - Weapons/Stolen items/Items linked to a crime - Most common stop and search tool.
• Section 47 Firearms Act 1968
• Section 23, Misuse of Drugs Act 1971
• Section 17, PACE - Right to enter property to pursue a suspect that you have seen enter a property OR there is a confirmed threat to life at the location and you must enter for preservation of life
• Section 18, PACE, Search property
• Section 32, PACE, - Search after arrest at the scene
• Section 54, PACE - Search at station only

Police Raids / Warrants

Warrants to enter a property for a raid or arrest - Must be granted by Red Command - In a time sensitive emergency Gold command can approve it but must justify strongly why they authorised it and have good legal grounds/standing for it.

Reasonable Force

A person may use such force as is reasonable in the circumstances in the prevention of crime, or in effecting or assisting in the lawful arrest of offenders or suspected offenders or of persons unlawfully at large.

Section 3, Criminal Law Act 1967

The use of reasonable force in exercising any power under PACE unless it specifically requires the consent of a person who is not a Police Officer.

Section 117, Police And Criminal Evidence Act 1984

An officer may act for the preservation of life or in acts of self defence.

Common Law

Everyone’s right to life shall be protected by law. No one shall be deprived of his life intentionally save in the execution of a sentence of a court following his conviction of a crime for which this penalty is provided by law.

Article 2, European Convention on Human Rights

Article 2 can also require, in certain well-defined circumstances, a positive obligation on the authorities to take preventive operational measures to protect an individual whose life is at risk from the criminal acts of another individual. Certain well-defined circumstances was defined in Osman v United Kingdom (1998) 29 EHRR 245.

Law enforcement officials shall not use firearms against persons except in self-defence or defence of others against the imminent threat of death or serious injury, to prevent the perpetration of a particularly serious crime involving grave threat to life, to arrest a person presenting such a danger and resisting their authority, or to prevent his or her escape, and only when less extreme means are insufficient to achieve these objectives. In any event, intentional lethal use of firearms may only be made when strictly unavoidable in order to protect life.

Section 9, Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials, Adopted by the Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders