Product Description
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.
Product Data
- ISBN:
- 9780192866165
- Author:
- Richard Card
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Pub Date:
- 14 July 2022
- Edition:
- Sixteenth Edition
- Format:
- Paperback
- Extent:
- 1104 Pages
- Dimensions:
- 156 x 234 mm
- Approx Wt:
- 1.6 kg
- HS Code:
- 490199
- General Principles
- Elements of Criminal Procedure
- Police Powers
- Police Questioning and the Rights of Suspects
- Treatment, Charging and Bail of Detainees
- Identification Methods
- The Law of Criminal Evidence
- The Police
- Traffic: General Provisions
- Use of Vehicles
- Control of Vehicles
- Lights and Vehicles
- Traffic Accidents
- Driving Offences
- Drinking or Drug-Taking and Driving
- Children and Young Persons
- Licensed Premises, Licensed Persons, Clubs, Places of Entertainment, and Offences of Drunkenness
- Dogs
- Firearms and Weapons
- Explosives
- Railways
- Nuisances, Collections, Vagrancy, Peddling, and Scrap Metal
- Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person
- Disputes
- Homicide and Related Offences
- Public Order other than Those Offences Related to Sporting Events or Industrial Disputes
- Public Order Offences Related to Sporting Events and Those Connected with Industrial Disputes
- Terrorism Generally
- Sexual Offences
- Offences Relating to Prostitution, Obscenity, and Indecent Photographs
- Drugs
- Theft and Related Offences, Robbery, and Blackmail
- Burglary
- Offences of Fraud and Bribery
- Handling Stolen Goods and Related Offences
- Forgery and Counterfeiting
- Criminal Damage and Computer Misuse
- Offences against Administration of Justice
- Preventive Justice
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