CRIM 3655 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Police Services Act Of Ontario, Black Letter Law, Handcuffs
4 Dec 2018
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The law serves to give the police the upper hand. Tool in the hand of the police. In the english court of appeal 19868 ex. Parte blackburn, while accepting that the police are answerable to the law, reiterated the cardinal principle of police independence: police answerable to the law, but, police independence. No minister of the crown can tell [the commissioner] that he must, or must not, keep observation on this place or that; or that he must or must not, prosecute this man or that one. Nor can any police authority tell him so. The responsibility for law enforcement lies on him. He is answerable to the law and to the law alone . S. 31(4) of the ontario police services act provides that municipal police boards cannot direct the chief of police with respect to specific operational decisions or with respect to the day to day operations of the police.
