Author: Mark E. Bannon

Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 0398084149

The goal of this book is to provide a quick reference guide for law enforcement officers in their quest to furnish professional police services to their communities. Designed to be a handy source for the study of criminal procedures, this guide has assembled numerous court cases that will assist officers in dealing with the issues they may often encounter. Additionally, this book will be useful as a training aid in roll call and promotional examinations. Major topics include; (1) arrest and entry to make arrests; (2) detention and search of persons; (3) search and seizure defined; (4) search incident to arrest; (5) vehicle searches; (6) consent to search; (7) Plain View and Plain Feel Doctrines; (8) inventory searches; (9) Open Fields and aerial surveillance; (10) Exclusionary Rule and Fruit of the Poisonous Tree; (11) police interrogation; (12) probable cause; (13) use of informants; and (14) entrapment. Question and answer sections appear at the end of each chapter that will assist in applying the rules of law discussed in the cases that are presented. This book will be useful for police academics and/or undergraduate criminal procedure studies.