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From the Met Police web site. The police officer will ask for your name and address and date of birth. You do not have to give this information if you don't want to, unless the police officer says they are reporting you for an offence.

Actually the proper example involves questions more like "Who are you?", and "Can you prove it?". In a society with the rule of law, the burden of proof is placed on the accuser, not the accused, and for good reason. We operate under a presumption of innocence, for good reason. Should Mr I S...

That has always baffled me a bit too. The first thing a police officer will tell you if they arrest you is that you don't have to say anything. Yet when they have not yet arrested you they often try to have you believe that you must tell them your name etc. It can't be that you have more of a...

It's known as "less-lethal", rather than "non-lethal", which tells you that officers should know that it has the potential to kill, and I think it should be used with that in mind. Don't police officers have training in how to physically subdue and restrain a person? I can't believe that anyone...

The thing is you have no idea what they are looking for or working on. From this guys perspective he is a law abiding citizen going about his day, and that affords him the right to carry on unmolested. I think the problem in these cases comes because the police don't tend to politely ask people...

I'm sure I recall the case for tasers being that they were a less-lethal option, to be used in the stead of more lethal options. The idea was originally supposed to be that you can taser someone instead of having to shoot them. Under that measure, you use a taser where previously you may have...