Richardson v Chief Constable of West Midlands Police – WLR Daily

Posted April 4th, 2011 in damages, false imprisonment, law reports, police by sally

Richardson v Chief Constable of West Midlands Police [2011] EWHC 773 (QB); [2011] WLR (D) 116

“Before a police officer made an arrest, pursuant to section 24 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, he had to consider, in accordance with the requirements of section 24(4), whether arrest was necessary or whether voluntary attendance at a police station would achieve the objective that he wished to secure.”

WLR Daily, 29th March 2011

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