Re: Tesco abuse customer

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 22:58:00 -0000, "Harry The Horse"
<HarryAtTheStable@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Alex Heney wrote:

Yes it is.

If they have reasonable grounds to suspect the person is in the act of
committing an indictable offence, then they *can* arrest the person.

You're relying on S24(4), which I do not think is applicable here. The
alarm going off is NOT reasonable grounds for suspecting that shoplifting is
in the act of being committed. False alarms are very common.


24(1)(b) actually (although it must be combined with 24(4)).

And I think the law would disagree with your assessment.

Certainly the legal advice the BBC obtained did.
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