Accountability Of The Police
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...the law, policing the populace to ensure the order is kept. They do not write the law, they merely uphold that which is decided upon by the legislature and enforced though the executive and the judiciary. In recent years there have been many Acts which have increased or amended the powers of the police, the main acts are PACE (Criminal Evidence Act ) 1984, Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996, and most recently the Police Reform Act 2002. It can be argued that in a changing world, where criminals are becoming harder to catch and evidence is increasingly important with technical breakthrough, then the increased powers are a reflection of the needs to ensure that the right person is charged with a crime. However, it can also be argued that as these powers have increased that the...
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