Whois & Analysis for policearrests.com

A police force is a constituted body of persons empowered by a state to enforce the law, to protect people and property, and to prevent crime and civil disorder.

Their powers include the power of arrest and the legitimized use of force.

The term is most commonly associated with police services of a sovereign state that are authorized to exercise the police power of that state within a defined legal or territorial area of responsibility.

Police forces are often defined as being separate from military or other organizations involved in the defense of the state against foreign aggressors; however, gendarmerie are military units charged with civil policing.

The police force is usually a public sector service, funded through taxes.

Criminal law is the body of law that relates to crime.

It proscribes conduct perceived as threatening, harmful, or otherwise endangering to the property, health, safety, and moral welfare of people inclusive of one's self.

Most criminal law is established by statute, which is to say that the laws are enacted by a legislature.

It includes the punishment of people who violate these laws.

Criminal law varies according to jurisdiction, and differs from civil law, where emphasis is more on dispute resolution and victim compensation than on punishment.

Criminal procedure is a formalized official activity that authenticates the fact of commission of a crime and authorizes punitive treatment of the offender.

These are at best core definitions; they do not comprehend all legal systems, all stages in the development of a legal system, or all elements within a given legal system.

Search and Seizure is a procedure used in many civil law and common law legal systems by which police or other authorities and their agents, who, suspecting that a crime has been committed, commence a search of a person's property and confiscate any relevant evidence found in connection to the crime.

An arrest is the act of apprehending a person and taking them into custody, usually because they have been suspected of committing or planning a crime.

After the person is taken into custody, usually at a police station, they can be questioned further and/or charged.

An arrest is an important procedure in a criminal justice system.

A criminal record or police record is a record of a person's criminal history.

The information included in a criminal record and the existence of a criminal record varies between countries and even between jurisdictions within a country.

In most cases it lists all non-expunged criminal offences and may also include traffic offences such as speeding and drunk-driving.

In some countries the record is limited to actual convictions (where the individual has pleaded guilty or been declared guilty by a qualified court), while in others it also includes arrests, charges dismissed, charges pending and charges of which the individual has been acquitted.