from the link you provided just to clarify..
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Power to detain:
Power to detain a person whom a CSO has reason to believe has committed a relevant offence who fails to comply with a requirement under paragraph 1A(3) to give name and address or who gives an answer which the CSO reasonably suspects to be false or inaccurate for up to 30 minutes for the arrival of a police officer (or to accompany that person to a police station if he or she elects to do so on request). Under paragraph 2(2) (as amended by Schedule 8 to the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005) a CSO may only be designated with the power to detain if they have also been designated with the power to require name and address under paragraph 1A of the Police Reform Act 2002.
Power to use reasonable force in relation to detained persons:
Paragraph 2(4A) of Schedule 4 to the Police Reform Act 2002 places a duty on CSOs to remain with a police officer when transferring a detained person to his or her custody until the police officer has control of the detained person. Paragraph 2(4B) places a CSO accompanying a detained person to a police station under a duty to remain at the police station untilhe has transferred control of the detained person. If a CSO is designated with paragraph 4ZB of Schedule 4
then he or she may use reasonable force in complying with duties under 2(4A) and 2(4B). If a CSO is designated with paragraph 4ZA then he or she may use reasonable force when exercising powers under paragraphs 2(3B), 2(4), 7A(8) or 7C(2)(a).
Not only do these glorified hall-monitors have the power to use 'reasonable force' (but according to who's definition of 'reasonable'?) but it is also apparently an offence to fail to consent to a search of the person!
Question:
If you see a police/CS officer committing an offence...such as a mounted officer's steed fouling a public highway, a police dog defecating in a public space, an illegally parked patrol vehicle, etc, do we have the right to perform a Citizen's Arrest on that officer? and how would be the best way to go about it?
[edit on 8-9-2008 by citizen smith]




yes... it is true.