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- Title
Divisional Court: Community Support Officers: Execution of their Duty and the Scope of Lawful Authority.
- Authors
Newman, Christopher J.
- Abstract
The article discusses a case heard at the Barking Youth Court where a youth was convicted of assaulting a community support officer (CSO) in the execution of her duties. Despite the youth's contention that the CSO intended to detain him unlawfully, the court decided that although the CSO has no power to detain the appellant in order for a police officer to do a search on him, no detention had occurred, and that the youth was rightly convicted of the offence. These are deemed to be in accordance with the Police Reform Act 2002 in Great Britain.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law); POLICE; DUTY; DETENTION of persons
- Publication
Journal of Criminal Law, 2011, Vol 75, Issue 3, p164
- ISSN
0022-0183
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1350/jcla.2011.75.3.699