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This well-respected and highly regarded book provides straightforward coverage of all aspects of law and police procedure that affect the community at large. It is comprehensive, easy to understand, and suitable for all readers, including those with no formal legal training. Police Law meets the reference needs of thousands of police officers, and provides an excellent source of information for members of the public wishing to refer to a legal text written in an accessible way. It is a practical volume for everyday use, which police officers and others working and studying in this area will find invaluable.
This edition has been fully updated. In addition to a host of amendments to pre-existing legislation, new bodies of statute law, such as the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, the Haulage Permits and Trailer Registration Act 2018, and the Assault on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018, are dealt with. Case law developments are also described, as are revisions to the PACE Codes.
Introduced into the body of the new edition is content covering public service vehicles, good vehicles, animals, birds, and plants, and game.
Police Law is accompanied by a companion website with regular chapter updates on new legislation and case law, as well as further content to that in the text.
1: General Principles
2: Elements of Criminal Procedure
3: Police Powers
4: Police Questioning and the Rights of Suspects
5: Treatment, Charging and Bail of Detainees
6: Identification Methods
7: The Law of Criminal Evidence
8: The Police
9: Traffic: General Provisions
10: Use of Vehicles
11: Control of Vehicles
12: Lights and Vehicles
13: Traffic Accidents
14: Driving Offences
15: Drinking or Drug-Taking and Driving
16: Children and Young Persons
17: Licensed Premises, Licensed Persons, Clubs, Places of Entertainment, and Offences of Drunkenness
18: Dogs
19: Firearms and Weapons
20: Explosives
21: Railways
22: Nuisances, Collections, Vagrancy, Peddling, and Scrap Metal
23: Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person
24: Disputes
25: Homicide and Related Offences
26: Public Order other than Those Offences Related to Sporting Events or Industrial Disputes
27: Public Order Offences Related to Sporting Events and Those Connected with Industrial Disputes
28: Terrorism Generally
29: Sexual Offences
30: Offences Relating to Prostitution, Obscenity, and Indecent Photographs
31: Drugs
32: Theft and Related Offences, Robbery, and Blackmail
33: Burglary
34: Offences of Fraud and Bribery
35: Handling Stolen Goods and Related Offences
36: Forgery and Counterfeiting
37: Criminal Damage and Computer Misuse
38: Offences against Administration of Justice
39: Preventive Justice
Richard Card is Emeritus Professor of law at De Monfort University, Leicester. He has written and lectured extensively in a number of areas of law, particularly criminal law, and is the sole author of Card, Cross, and Jones'Criminal Law.
The late Jack English was former Assistant Chief Constable with Northumbria Police, Director of the Central Planning and Instructor Training Unit, and Chief Examiner to the Police Promotion Examinations Board. He authored a number of well-respected police titles and also wrote on summonses and charges for the Police Reviewing Company.
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"Police Law is simply a wonderful police law book. It excels in its comprehensiveness, its use of simple language without footnotes; and its style of writing which makes one want to read it from end to end because of its logical, well-ordered presentation, sound research and authorativeness. Not many law books can boast of those qualities. It is simply the best, thanks to Oxford University Press." - Sally Ramage, The Criminal Lawyer
