Police Foundations LAW220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Exigent Circumstance, The Offence, Fax
7 Aug 2018
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Reasonable grounds: a set of facts or circumstances and conditions which would satisfy an ordinary, Cautious and prudent person that there is reason to believe which goes beyond. Articulable cause - used for investigation purposes where there is reasonable suspicion that the detainee is involved in the criminal activity being investigated. Exigent circumstances: will generally be held to exist if there is imminent danger of loss, removal, destruction or disappearance of evidence if the search and seizure is delayed. Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure". Search & seizure: search looking for things, including spoken words to be used as evidence of an offence, seizure the taking of a thing from a person by public authority without that person"s consent. Person (includes: clothes worn by the person. Items held by the person: bodily substances, including blood and hair. May remove any item given voluntarily for safekeeping.
