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Fuck giving the police any more power or authority than they have.
Agreed, but they already have the power. Section 17 of PACE would have allowed them to force entry to save life or limb. They must have thought there wasn't any such threat at the time. I almost used it once when I used to work for/with them. Call that a neighbour could see through a skylight and there were a pair of legs that belonged to a seemingly unconscious person sticking out of the bathroom door. When we got there, the ambulance had beaten us to it. Door open and lock pieces strewn up the hallway.
CSB: dude had had a bit too much GHB, passed out in the bathroom and was soon medically fine. But as he was coming round, he became VERY friendly and was trying to get one of the paramedics to come to bed with him. Totally oblivious to the 6 other people standing around his bed.
stevo_com-
Section 17 of PACE would have allowed them to force entry to save life or limb
Let me tell you how annoying it is when you take your elderly mother on holiday for a few days, only to return to find a neighbour asked the police for a 'welfare check', there is no longer a front door, a hall full of tiny fragments of broken glass, you have to pay hundreds on the spot just to get the boarding-up cowboys to open it up, wait 6 weeks for a new door, end up hundreds out of pocket for insurance excess, and the concerned neighbour never even identifies themselves.
Oh and a year later the crappy replacement lock fails and it's hundreds more for a locksmith callout and replacement.
chez_jay
the police did the right thing... " I wanted them to break the door down, but they said they couldn’t without a warrant. They said the landlord needed to deal with it.".
Fuck giving the police any more power or authority than they have.