The Law on Police Powers in Barbados

The Law on Police Powers in Barbados would be the first ever attempt to present a comprehensive treatment of the law in respect of police powers in Barbados. The specificity and comprehensiveness of the exposition of the law in this area make this book unique. Another distinctive aspect of the book is that the authors treat with police powers under statutes as diverse such as the Mutual Legal Assistance Act and the Domestic Violence Act in addition to discussing police powers of arrest, search, etcetera in the traditional criminal investigation context. Since the enactment of PACE in the UK the practitioner interested in knowing what the law is in Barbados in respect of police powers would no longer have to read carefully to determine what recent common law authority is germane to Barbados. The book seeks to make that task easier and is intended for those practitioners and police officers seeking an analytical compendium of the law in the jurisdiction. Whilst local statutes and the English common law naturally constitute the subject of examination, comparisons with the position in Canada are made at various junctures of the book, because of the shared similarity in regard to a constitutional bill of rights that impacts on liberty restrictive laws. The Law on Police Powers in Barbados will be particularly useful for the legal instruction of police officers in Barbados and provide insights for research papers by undergraduates pursuing social science courses at the University of the West Indies and at the Community and Teachers Colleges of the Caribbean region.