Here’s one from Britishland that’s guaranteed to make yer blood boil:
Shoppers trying to arrest shoplifters could expose themselves to legal action and even imprisonment for assault, a lawyer has said.
Chris Philp told a fringe event at last week’s Tory Party conference that members of the public should make citizen’s arrests on thieves and called on security guards to step in where it is safe to do so.
But Ed Smyth, partner at Kingsley Napley, said that the law generally only permits citizen’s arrests for serious cases that could be tried in a crown court. They could also be used for low value shoplifting cases, but the force used must always be reasonable in the circumstances.
And guess what? You don’t get to decide what’s “reasonable”.
No wonder that law-abiding Brits just cower in the face of villainy. The law is not on their side.