Details
- Provides the most comprehensive and straightforward coverage of those areas of the law and legal procedures applicable to police officers
- A highly accessible text which assumes no prior legal knowledge
- Fully up-to-date with the latest legislation and case law including important changes to the law regarding domestic violence, identification methods, public order, and road safety
- Clear and simple structure with extensive use of cross-referencing to ensure ease of use and readability
- Accompanied by a free companion website containing quarterly updates
New to this edition
- Includes a number of significant legislative updates, including the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011, the Protection of Freedom Act 2012, the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, and the Crime and Security Act 2010
- Updated chapters covering revisions to the PACE Codes of Practice C and H (10th July 2012), as well as Code G (November 2012)
Now in its thirteenth edition, this well-respected and highly regarded book covers all areas of law and legal procedure which are of interest to police officers.
Updated to include new legislation such as the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011, the Protection of Freedom Act 2012, the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, and the Crime and Security Act 2010, there is also discussion of important changes to PACE Codes C, G, and H, as well as updates on the law relating to domestic violence, gambling, public order, and road safety. In addition, there is new case law and a revised structure reflecting the changing nature of policing and the challenges officers face.
Comprehensive and easy to understand, Police Law is an indispensable everyday reference book for police officers, and is the only book covering all areas of police law. The book also provides a good source of information for members of the public who wish to refer to a legal text written in an accessible way. Police Law is accompanied by a useful companion website containing regular updates on changes in the law throughout the life of the print edition.
Readership: All police officers and police trainers, police authorities, professional development units, police libraries, the Serious and Organised Crime Agency, the Home Office, advice centres such as the Citizens Advice Bureau, and police studies degree students and academics.
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, Emeritus Professor of Law at De Montfort University, Leicester, and Jack English, Formerly Assistant Chief Constable at Northumbria Police, and Director of the Central Planning and Instructor Training Unit, and Chief Examiner to the Police Promotion Examinations Board
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.
Review(s) from previous edition
"Police Law is used by every Citizens Advice Bureau in England and Wales. It covers a range of problems faced by our clients and is invaluable when Citizens Advice Bureau advisers need to know, for example, the extent of police powers. The book is clearly set out and easy to read. - Citizens Advice Information Department
"It is a very easy to use comprehensive book. When giving advice to clients it is important for us as advisors to have access to information quickly and that it be clear and concise. This book does the job - what more can I say! " - Julie Plisner Haines, Citizens Advice Bureau, Essex
"This publication is an institution. It is very well known and has a fantastic reputation for doing exactly what it says on the tin. " - DCI Stephen Tunks, Avon & Somerset Police
"I would recommend this book to Law students and Student police officers to gain an in-depth knowledge of Police Law." - Kayleigh Rhodes, BSc Policing Student, Wolverhampton University
"This books needs to be freely accessible to every operational police officer at the 'coal-face' of policing, as a basic tool in his everyday work." - Simon Dell - after 37 years operational policing
"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
