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The authority for use of police power under American Constitutional law has its roots in English and European common law traditions. [3] Even more fundamentally, use of police power draws on two Latin principles, sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas ("use that which is yours so as not to injure others"), and salus populi suprema lex esto ("the welfare of the people shall be the supreme law ...
Law enforcement officers will be questioned by a single investigator, and he or she shall be informed of the name, rank, and command of the officer conducting the investigation. Law enforcement officers under investigation are entitled to have counsel or any other individual of their choice present at the interrogation.
Internal review involves formal reviews done by the LEA itself on the use of its powers and law exemptions. Often, as part of this process, every time a certain power is used an incident report detailing the circumstances requiring the use of the power and the outcomes of the use of the power must be completed. For example, a use of force ...
Private police officers are generally required to be licensed the same as a regular police officer and have the same powers as a regular law enforcement officer (even if sometimes limited to the properties they are assigned to protect). A specific type of private police is company police, such as railroad police.
Many circuit courts have said that law enforcement can hold your property for as long as they want. D.C.’s high court decided last week that’s unconstitutional.
The other man, Richard Chilton, then repeated Terry's movements. As McFadden watched, the pair repeated this routine many times. A third man then joined them and the three began walking down the street toward the store. McFadden suspected the men had been "casing" the store in preparation for robbing it, so he followed and confronted them.
The prosecutor laid out a number of conditions that the state wanted the man to follow: obeying the order of protection, not possessing a firearm or any other dangerous weapon, getting a mental ...
When pursuing a vehicle, an officer must consider a number of factors before choosing to exceed the posted speed limit while following a suspect Police pursuits are ‘dangerous situations.’