The Constitutional Independence of a Police Constable in the Exercise of the Powers of His Office

The Times, July 6, 1974.

See The Police Review, July 19, 1974, p. 908.

The Times, loc cit.

It has been argued recently that the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police is not a Constable. See The Police R. , No. 4254, p. 956, and correspondence in later issues, e.g., 18.10.74.

14 Car. 2c. 12 (1662) s. 15.

Holdsworth, History of English Law, 1st ed. Vol. 4, p. 124.

(1611) 9 Co. Rep. at 628.

(1930) 2KB, 364.

(1906) 3 C.L.R. 969.

Cmnd. 1728.

op. cit. p. 25.

R. v. Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, ex. parte Blackburn, (1968) 2QBD 118.

Regulation 1, Schedule 1 (3).

See e.g. Arrosmith v. Jenkins (1963) 2QBD 561; Buckoke v. The Greater London Council (1971) Ch. 655.

R. v. Kennedy (1902) 86 L.T. 753; Duchesne v. Finch (1912) TLR 440.

R. v. Byrde & Pontypool Gas Co. (1890) LJMC 17; see also Magistrates Courts Act, 1952, s. 1 (1).

See also para. 6 of sch. 1 to the Disciplinary Regulations 1965; (n. 13 supra).

op. cit. para. 3.

per Lord Denning in Blackburn case, supra.