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Police Law - Ninth Edition

Chapter 28 - Non-fatal Offences against the Person

Chapter 28 - Non-fatal Offences against the Person

Arrest p 747

Delete this heading and the text which appears below it.

Assault on, obstructing or resisting, a constable in the execution of his duty pp 749-752

Reference to the 'National Crime Intelligence Service or the National Crime Squad' should be replaced by a reference to the 'Serious Organised Crime Agency'.

Obstructing or resisting a constable in the execution of his duty p 752

In relation to paragraph 2 under this heading, it has been held that a person who warns motorists of a police speed check is only guilty of obstructing a constable in the execution of his duty if the prosecution proves that the motorists warned were in fact speeding or were likely to be speeding at that location. [DPP v Glendinning (2005) 155 New Law Journal 1631]

Racially - or Religiously-Aggravated Non-fatal Offences agaianst the Person pp 757 & 758

A man who became involved in an argument in a kebab shop referred to the chef as 'a bloody foreigner'. A divisional court said that the term 'racial group' should be given a broad interpretation and could be taken to refer to a group of persons defined by reference to race or national origins depending upon the circumstances in which the words were used. [DPP v M [2005] Crim LR 392]