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  2. Nearest relative - Wikipedia

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    Grounds for making an application to displace, according to Section 29(3), include the patient having no discernible 'nearest relative' or the 'nearest relative' being 'incapable' due to mental disorder or other illness, 'unreasonably' objecting to detention, exercising their power to discharge without due regard for the patient's 'welfare' or ...

  3. Law enforcement in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    [nb 1] Most law enforcement duties are carried out by police constables of a territorial police force. As of 2021, there were 39 territorial police forces in England, 4 in Wales, one in Scotland, and one in Northern Ireland. [1] Each is responsible for most law enforcement and crime reduction in its police area.

  4. Immediate family - Wikipedia

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    The definition was to be expanded from "a remaining spouse, sexual cohabitant, partner, step-parent or step-child, parent-in-law or child-in-law, or an individual related by blood whose close association is an equivalent of a family relationship who was accepted by the deceased as a child of his/her family" to include "any person who had ...

  5. List of law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom, Crown ...

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    National law enforcement bodies, including the National Crime Agency and national police forces that have a specific, non-regional jurisdiction, such as the British Transport Police. The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 refers to these as 'special police forces', not including the NCA which is not a police force. In addition, there ...

  6. List of police forces of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    It does not include non-police law enforcement agencies or bodies of constables not constituted as police forces. For a list of all law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom and its territories, see List of law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories.

  7. Police ranks of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    However, as law enforcement in the United Kingdom is organised separately in the three jurisdictions of England and Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland, and as most law enforcement is carried out by police officers serving in regional police services known as territorial police forces, some variations in rank organisation, insignia and ...

  8. Powers of the police in England and Wales - Wikipedia

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    In English law, "consent" in relation to trespass includes situations where a licence (i.e. permission to enter onto land) is implied without having to be explicitly stated: for example, walking through a private garden to reach the front door of a house for the purpose of delivering a letter. Where consent has not been granted by the occupier ...

  9. National Crime Agency - Wikipedia

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    The proposed agency was first publicly announced in a statement to the House of Commons by Theresa May, the then Home Secretary, on 26 July 2010. [10] On 8 June 2011, she declared that the NCA would comprise a number of distinct operational commands: Organised Crime, Border Policing, Economic Crime and the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, and that it would house the National ...