Introduction

Question 1

Public disorder is characterised by what?

Answer 1

Disruptive behaviour which deprives others of the peace and quiet to which they are entitled. Therefore, it includes a wide range of scenarios and perceived nuisances.

Question 2

One of your core functions as warranted officers of The Crown is to maintain “The Queen’s Peace”. As such, you should become conversant with what?

Answer 2

Common Law powers including the definitions of what a breach of the peace is and, indeed, the preventative powers so as to prevent any breach of the peace. The old adage that prevention is better than the cure is a key component of Common Law powers.

Question 3

Maintaining a democratic, orderly and cohesive society governed by the rule of law is at the very heart of Robert Peel’s British Model of Policing.

Nine principles of policing were defined, known as what?

Answer 3

The ‘Peelian Principles’

One of these principles was that the police should “prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment”.

To this day, when police officers are attested in their role, they take an oath, that they will “uphold fundamental human rights and … cause the peace to be kept and preserved and prevent all offences against people and property…”.

This means you, as neighbourhood officers, will take this same oath.