Police Flashcards
Section 136 Mental Health Act
Police officer can hold you where you are or take you to a place of safety If they believe a person is in need of immediate control or care.
Can’t be done in their dwelling or someone else’s home.
Force Mission
To detect and prevent harm, protect the vulnerable and reduce crime.
Definition of vulnerability
A person is vulnerable if as a result of their situation or individual circumstances they are unable to take care or protect themselves or others from harm or exploitation.
Section 44 Mental health act
Ill treatment and wilful neglect of a person who lacks capacity to make relevant decisions. Either way offence
Youth justice and criminal evidence act
Section 16
Vulnerable witnesses quality of evidence is likely to be diminished because of a disability, their age, mental disorder, learning disability
Section 17 Youth Justice and criminal evidence act
Intimidated witness evidence is likely to be diminished through fear or distress.
Section 136 (1b) Mental health act Section 136 (1c)
police officers can enter any place in which section 136 applies to remove a person.
Police officers must consult one of a list of specified healthcare professionals before deciding to move someone to a place of safety.
Section 135 Mental health act
Officers need a warrant to remove someone from their home
Principles of information sharing
Necessary, proportionate, relevant, adequate, accurate, timely, secure, recored
ISA
MASH
VIST
ACE
Information sharing agreement
Multi-agency safeguarding hub- sharing information between agencies.
Vulnerability Indicator Screening Tool.
Adverse Childhood Experiences
Section 46 Childs act
Police officer has reasonable cause to believe that a child is likely to suffer significant harm, the child can be kept in or removed to suitable accommodation up to 72 hours.
Section 135 Mental Health Act
Power of entry and force to control the environment and persons within with a warrant to assist NHS staff in transportation under RAVE
Resisting, Aggressive, Violent, escape
Section 26 PACE
Preserved power- The power to detain ( arrest) a person under the mental health act.
Transportation of mental health patients should be in an ambulance
Forms of child abuse
Neglect, cruelty, sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse
Child is defined as a person under the age of 18
What is grooming
Reducing the resistance of a child, parent or carer to abuse. When someone builds a relationship trust and emotional connection with someone so they can manipulate, exploit or abuse them.
Outraging public decency- common law
Either way offence- It is an offence to commit an act of lewd obscene and disgusting nature capable of causing outrage public decency in a public place where at least 2 people could’ve witnessed it.
Section 66 Sexual offences Act- Exposure
Either way offence- A person who intentionally exposes genitals and intends that someone will see them and cause alarm and distress.
Section 67 sexual offences act - Voyeurism
It is an offence if for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification observes another in private without consent.
Section 67- up skirting sexual offences act
A person commits an offence if they operate equipment and record images to cause harassment alarm and distress.
Section 71 sexual offences act - sexual activity in a public toilet
Either way offence- A person commits an offence if in a lavatory to which the public have access, he intentionally engages in an activity and the activity is sexual.
Section 1 sexual offences act- Rape
Indictable offence- offence for a person to intentionally penetrate the vagina, anus or mouth of another person without that persons consent and they do not reasonably believe that they consent.
Section 2 sexual offences act - Assault by penetration
Indictable- A person intentionally penetrates the vagina or anus of another person with part of his body or anything else and the penetration is sexual and without consent
Section 3 sexual offence act - Sexual assault ( touching)
Triable either way- It is an offence for a person to intentionally touch another person sexually without that persons consent or they do not reasonably believe that person would give consent.
Section 4 sexual offences act - Causing a person to engage in sexual activity
Either way offence unless the Vagina, Anus, mouth was penetrated with a penis. The activity is sexual, the victim does not engage in the activity and the offender does not believe the victim would give consent.
