Police Detention: Understanding the Reasonable Limits

Name Institutional affiliations Date Under normal circumstances, a police officer has a right to detain a person with reasonable suspicion that they have committed a crime. There is a difference between an arrest and detention. First, a person is detained on suspicion, whereafter, if the suspicions are confirmed, an arrest follows. Interestingly, no set limit exists for police detention. Still, the law stipulates that police officers are only allowed to detain a suspect for a reasonable peri