Talk:Powers of the police in the United Kingdom

Expansion
This page needs expanding to included information on powers of arrest as introduced in January in the Serious and Organised Crime Act 2005 --TFoxton 20:31, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * The article needs expanding to include powers of arrest and detention. Fences and windows (talk) 01:15, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Future of this article
I propose that this article is split into four articles (one for each legal system and one for the UK as a whole) entitled: Police powers in England and Wales, Police powers in Scotland and Police powers in Northern Ireland. These three would have to refer to the territorial police forces of their legal system. The fourth article would be Police powers in the United Kingdom, which would point to the three sub-articles and cover the powers of the special police forces. ninety:one 23:37, 14 March 2009 (UTC)


 * That's something that will affect more than just this article. I'd take the proposal to WikiProject Law Enforcement. Fences and windows (talk) 22:56, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I've started writing at User:Ninetyone/test2. Feel free to join in if you want :) ninety:one 20:28, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually, I can see the benefit. I'll see if I can help. Fences and windows (talk) 21:32, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Merge
There was an old tag to merge this into Stop and search. I think the pages should be merged, but the other way around. This is the better article, and has a better, more specific title. Fences and windows (talk) 22:53, 20 April 2009 (UTC)