Right From Wrong: Dealing With Suspects
One of the most exciting and daunting challenges faced by law enforcement officers all around the world is that of arresting suspects.
We have all heard the cry ‘What about my human rights?’, especially from those who have just been arrested. Those rights, together with many other rules, guidelines and procedures have now been set down highly detailing the way in which you must be treated should you be arrested. Of course there must, and always will be, a need for these reasonable and rational rights to be regularly ratified in a civilised society.
However, I for one am and sick and tired of having the ‘human rights’ of criminals rammed down my throat. Everyone is painfully aware of where, when and how the police service got it badly wrong in the past, with innocent people being incarcerated whilst the guilty walked free.
The police service is not proud of that fact but they have learned important, painful and expensive lessons from those dark days. Of course things will still go wrong from time to time; that is human nature, but the mistakes and failings of the past have resulted in significant and innovative strides forward in policing methods and investigative techniques.
DNA profiling, National Offender Databases, Community Enforcement Warden Schemes and PCSOs, to name but a few, have all helped to restrict the freedoms formerly enjoyed by criminals and miscreants. Not perfect I grant you and never will be but I strongly believe that it is only those who have good reason to fear the police who should. If you breach the human rights of others then your own should be forfeited!
Some squawk on about being watched by ‘big brother’ and about the state-driven infringement of their human rights but what about their human responsibilities?
What about your responsibility to the community to ensure and allow all to go about their personal and working life in a reasonable, respectable and responsible manner, just as you would expect others to respect your own privacy and peace?
Why should we all put up with any anti-social, drunken, yobbish and criminal behaviour from those who could and should know better, irrespective of their gender, age, ethnic origin, social class, religion etc?
Who should we blame for the boorish, violent and criminal culture that seems to be growing insidiously within these shores and around the world? Children? Parents? Police? Government? Foreigners? The list of possible suspects is many and varied.
Just for the record I have spent my entire adult life working in some of the most socio-economically deprived areas of the United Kingdom and in only a very small percentage do such an area’s occupants actually turn to crime, and more often than not only after falling into drug misuse.
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We have all heard the cry ‘What about my human rights?’, especially from those who have just been arrested. Those rights, together with many other rules, guidelines and procedures have now been set down highly detailing the way in which you must be treated should you be arrested. Of course there must, and always will be, a need for these reasonable and rational rights to be regularly ratified in a civilised society.
However, I for one am and sick and tired of having the ‘human rights’ of criminals rammed down my throat. Everyone is painfully aware of where, when and how the police service got it badly wrong in the past, with innocent people being incarcerated whilst the guilty walked free.
The police service is not proud of that fact but they have learned important, painful and expensive lessons from those dark days. Of course things will still go wrong from time to time; that is human nature, but the mistakes and failings of the past have resulted in significant and innovative strides forward in policing methods and investigative techniques.
DNA profiling, National Offender Databases, Community Enforcement Warden Schemes and PCSOs, to name but a few, have all helped to restrict the freedoms formerly enjoyed by criminals and miscreants. Not perfect I grant you and never will be but I strongly believe that it is only those who have good reason to fear the police who should. If you breach the human rights of others then your own should be forfeited!
Some squawk on about being watched by ‘big brother’ and about the state-driven infringement of their human rights but what about their human responsibilities?
What about your responsibility to the community to ensure and allow all to go about their personal and working life in a reasonable, respectable and responsible manner, just as you would expect others to respect your own privacy and peace?
Why should we all put up with any anti-social, drunken, yobbish and criminal behaviour from those who could and should know better, irrespective of their gender, age, ethnic origin, social class, religion etc?
Who should we blame for the boorish, violent and criminal culture that seems to be growing insidiously within these shores and around the world? Children? Parents? Police? Government? Foreigners? The list of possible suspects is many and varied.
Just for the record I have spent my entire adult life working in some of the most socio-economically deprived areas of the United Kingdom and in only a very small percentage do such an area’s occupants actually turn to crime, and more often than not only after falling into drug misuse.
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