General Police Duties Flashcards
Ammunition
Any ammunition for any firearm and includes; grenades, bombs and other like missiles; whether capable of use with a firearm or not.
Alcohol
Spirits, wine, beer, cider or any other fermented, distilled or spiritous liquor but does not include alcohol which is of a strength of 0.5% or less, at the time of its sale.
Controlled Container
A container of any description which is or was capable of holding any liquid and is made from material which, if the container were to be thrown or propelled at a person, could cause injury to that person.
Domestic Abuse
Any form of physical, sexual or mental and emotional abuse which might amount to criminal conduct and which takes place within the context of a relationship. The relationship will be between partners (married, co-habiting, civil partnership or otherwise) or ex-partners. The abuse can be committed in the home or elsewhere.
Firearm
A lethal barrelled weapon of any description from which any shot, bullet or other missile can be discharged and includes any ‘prohibited weapon’, whether lethal barrelled or not, any ‘component part’ of such a lethal or prohibited weapon or any ‘accessory’ to such weapons which are designed or adapted to diminish the sound or flash caused by firing the weapon.
Missing Person
Anyone whose whereabouts are unknown, whatever the circumstances of their disappearance. They will be considered missing until located or their well being or otherwise established.
Mobbing and Rioting
A mob is a group of person acting together for a common illegal purpose to the alarm of the lieges and in breach of the peace. It is a crime at common law to form part of a mob.
Occupancy Rights
The right, if in occupation, to continue to occupy the matrimonial home. If not in occupation, a right to enter into and occupy the matrimonial home, and in either case the right to do so to together with any child of the family.
Period of a Designated Sporting Event
A period which commences 2 hours before the start, or advertised start and is concluded 1 hour after the event.
Reckless Discharge
A crime at common law for anyone to recklessly discharge a firearm, whether or not actual injury is caused.
Relevant Area (of a sports ground)
Any part of the ground to which spectators are granted access on payment or from which the event can be viewed directly.
Shotgun
A smooth bore gun, not being an air weapon, which has a barrel not less than 24 inches (2 feet) in length, the bore of which does not exceed 2 inches in diameter and which either has no magazine or has a non-detachable magazine which is incapable of holding more than 2 catridges.
