Card and English on Police Law

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.

Richard Card, Professor Emeritus, De Montfort University, Leicester

Richard Card is Emeritus Professor of Law and former Head of De Montfort Law School, De Montfort University, Leicester. He has written and lectured extensively in a number of areas of law, particularly criminal law, and is the author of Card, Cross, and Jones' Criminal Law.

PART I: POLICE LAW, POWERS AND PROCEDURE
1. Introductory Matters
2. Police Officers, Staff and Volunteers
3. Elements of Criminal Procedure
4. Police Powers
5. Police Questioning and the Rights of Suspects CHAPTER 6
6. Treatment, Charging and Bail of Detainees
7. Identification Methods
8. The Law of Criminal Evidence
PART II: PROTECTING PEOPLE
9. Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person
10. Homicide and Related Offences
11. Sexual Offences
12. Indecent Images, Material and Communications
13. Protection of Vulnerable People
PART III: PROTECTING PEOPLE
14. Offences against Property
15. Cyber-Crime and Computer Misuse
16. Animal Welfare and Protection
PART IV: PROTECTING COMMUNITIES
17. Nuisances
18. Preserving the Peace
19. Preventing Harm from Firearms, Weapons and Explosives
20. Preventing Harm from Drugs and Alcohol
21. Terrorism Generally
22. Preserving the Administration of Justice and Probity
PART V: POLICING ROADS AND VEHICLES
23. Roads and Vehicles: General Provisions
24. Regulation and Responsibilities of Drivers
25. Regulation of Vehicles
26. Responsible Use of Vehicles