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Organisation of the Police/ Police Accountability & Complaints

Section 76 of Police & Criminal Evidence Act 1984 also termed as

(PACE) is actually linked with the theme of confession evidence and along with this, it is also based on all the common law related rules that are linked with the confession evidence. Under the Section 76 of PACE 1984, if at any point of time, confession has been received by a specific mean known as ?oppression?, then on further notices court cannot make this confession enable enough so that it can be used as evidence. Along with this, the section 78 of the Police & Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) 1984 is also concerned with the exclusion of all the unfair based evidences at court. Under this Section 78 (1) of the legislation, it also provides equal powers to the courts that actually allow them in order to refuse to all the enabled evidences so that they can be further used. The case of R v Mason [1987] was termed to be the first case that was heard under this PACE 1984, which is also related to the Section 78 of the legislation. Along with this case, Mason was arrested by the police in matter of committing an arson offence, but on the other side, police did not have any proper evidence that can actually show that he was actually responsible for committing that particular crime. The police thus further explained to Mason and also to his solicitor that they while investigating had noticed some pieces of glass from a bottle of liquid which was also inflammable and was also near to the crime scene, which also apparently had the fingerprints of Mason?s on those pieces of glass. This was as a matter of fact termed to be incorrect. Mason no doubt admits that he had committed he arson offence and thus Judge was convicted Mason for the crime by using his confession based evidence. Mason also appealed against his conviction and on the other side the appeal court also ruled that the deceit also exhibited by police towards Mason and his solicitor was also blameworthy and was also affected his chances of obtaining a fair trial. Mason?s confession was only used as the matter of prosecution evidence. Thus, Mason?s was also convicted to be scrapped. In this regard, one thing is to be noted that every case should be properly viewed and then any further decisions should be made so that best possible outcomes can be easily generated. If every case is properly reviewed and highlighted, no further chances of mistake will be left and by these best possible outcomes can for sure be generated. As a matter of fact this is termed to be the foremost responsibility of the police officer to see whether every case is being reviewed properly without any further issues and problems and by this only every case can lead towards the best possible outcomes. Organization of the police is termed as a place ...