Clause 13 - Arrest for failing to comply with conditional caution
Police and Justice Bill
10:00 am
Michael Fabricant (Whip, Whips; Lichfield, Conservative)
What the Minister says is reassuring, up to a point, but what about the scenario that I mentioned earlier, where a computer goes wrong, or the battery goes flat on the police officer’s wireless or radio control system? I can think of a series of scenarios in which things go wrong. It is right and proper that someone with a paint aerosol—the example that I gave earlier—should be held, but only up to a limit. How long will it be for—half a day, a day, two days? Surely some safeguard has to be built in.