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Question 1

Section 17 PACE 1984

Answer 1

A constable may enter and search ANY premises, included vehicles, vessels, aircraft, hovercraft, tents, off shore installations, movable structures, for the purpose of:
1) Arresting any person for an Indictable offence
2) Executing an arrest/commitment warrant
3) Saving life and limb and to prevent serious loss or damage to property
Indictable: Pace indictable only and either way

Question 2

SECTION 17(1) PACE 1984

Answer 2

A constable may enter and search any premises they believe a person is in order to arrest that person. If necessary he may use reasonable force to effect that arrest

Question 3

SECTION 17(2) PACE 1984

Answer 3

A constable may enter and search any premises they believe a person is to execute a warrant in order to arrest that person. And if necessary and in order to make that arrest he/she may use reasonable force.

Question 4

SECTION 17(3) PACE 1984

Answer 4

A constable may enter and search any premises for the purpose of saving life and limb or preventing serious damage to property

Question 5

Other offences covered by SECTION 17 PACE 1984

Answer 5

S4 Public Order Act 1986
S4 Road traffic Act 1988 (Driving whilst unfit)
S163 Road traffic Act 1988 (Fail to Stop)
S1 Public Order Act 1936 (Prohibited uniforms)
S6,7,8 and 10 Criminal Law Act 1977 (entering/remaining on a property)
S23(1) Children and Young person Act 1969 (Child absconded from local authority)
S144 Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of offenders Act 2012 (Squatting in residential buildings)
S7 Bail Act 1976 (Where a person is not likely to surrender to custody)
Recapturing a person unlawfully at large and being pursued
Recapturing a person unlawfully at large from prison, remand centre

Question 6

ESCAPES

Answer 6

E = Executing a warrant
S = Saving life and limb
C = Child absent from care
A = Arrest for indictable offence
P = Pursuing person unlawfully at large
E = Escape from detention
S = Specified other offences

Question 7

SECTION 32 PACE 1984

Answer 7

A constable may enter and search any premises in which a person was following an arrest for an indictable offence, where:

1) There are reasonable grounds for believing there is evidence on the premises where the person was when arrested
2) Or was immediately before
3) And the evidence relates to the offence for which he/she was arrested

Question 8

SECTION 18(1) PACE 1984

Answer 8

A constable may enter and search any premises occupied or controlled by a person who is under arrest for an indictable offence if he/she has grounds:
1) For suspecting that there is on the premises evidence relating to that offence
Or
2) To another indictable offence which is connected with or similar to that offence
INSPECTORS MUST AUTHORISE THIS

Question 9

SECTION 18(5) PACE 1984

Answer 9

Before taking the person to a police station or releasing the person on street bail
AND
without obtaining an inspector’s authority if the presence of that person is necessary for an effective investigation

Question 10

SECTION 19 (2&3) PACE 1984

Answer 10

A constable who is lawfully on any premises may seize anything which is on the premises if he/she has reasonable grounds for believing that
1) It has been obtained in consequence of the commission of an offence
2) it is evidence in relation to that offence he/she is investigating OR ANY OTHER offence
AND
It is necessary to seize in order to prevent it being concealed, lost, altered, damaged or destroyed (CLADD)