🚨 If Police Knock and Ask "Does He Live Here?" — Say THIS (Saying the Wrong Thing Is an Offence)

Make Them Pay: https://knowrightsuk.gumroad.com/l/make_them_pay There is a knock, the officer is perfectly polite, and the question is not about you at all. Does he live here. Is he in. We are looking for your son. You have done nothing. You are a parent, a landlord, or somebody whose flatmate moved out in March. On almost every video here the answer is some version of silence, and I cannot say only that today — because this is the one doorstep where the danger is not letting them in. It is what comes out of your mouth while you stand there. 📋 WHAT THIS VIDEO COVERS — Section 17 of PACE 1984, and why BOTH of its halves have to be satisfied — The word in section 17(2)(a) that decides everything: believing, not suspecting — The difference between a warrant to arrest a person and one to search an address — What is not on the list: no power to enter to ask questions, or to check who lives there — Section 17(5), which abolished the old common law powers, and what survived it — Rice v Connolly 1966, and the line that has governed this ever since — Section 4 of the Criminal Law Act 1967, and the three things a prosecution has to prove — The three sentences to say on the step, and why none contains a fact — The most common version of all: he does not live there any more — Why the dangerous sentence is never the first one, it is the one after 🔎 SOURCES Section 17 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 — (1)(b) and (1)(e) for the purposes, (2)(a) for the belief standard, (5) and (6) for the abolition of the common law powers. Section 4 of the Criminal Law Act 1967 for assisting an offender. Section 89(2) of the Police Act 1996 for obstruction. Rice v Connolly 1966 2 QB 414, Lord Parker CJ. Every section is on screen as I read it, from legislation.gov.uk. ⚠️ THE PART TO REMEMBER Lord Parker CJ, 1966: there is all the difference in the world between deliberately telling a false story, something which on no view a citizen has a right to do, and preserving silence or refusing to answer, something he has every right to do. Silence about another adult is lawful. A made-up answer is an offence with its own section and sentence. And a guess, offered to be helpful, counts as a made-up answer. FREE HELP FIRST. The duty solicitor at a police station costs you nothing, ever, at any hour. Citizens Advice will look at paperwork with you for free. Always the free route before anybody paid. 📘 Make Them Pay — how a complaint about a police encounter is actually made, with five template letters and the parts you fill in marked in brackets: https://knowrightsuk.gumroad.com/l/make_them_pay England and Wales only. This is general legal education about published sections and a reported case — not advice about your situation, your family or your address. I am a solicitor but not your solicitor. Has this happened to you, police at your door about somebody else? Type the county, nothing else. #knowyourrights #ukLaw #policeatthedoor #pace1984 #righttosilence