Question

Should police discretion be limited? If so, how? If not why? please provide a source

Answer 1

The police discretion should be definitely a limited one.

Discretion is necessary in the jobs of police personnel becacuse they have to handle and deal with numerous different situations wherein freedom to make decisions as per the demands of the specific times is expected.

A situation may reflect the need for conscience and presence of mind to act a certain instant of the time. There may even be very less time to arrive at a decision and to act accordingly.

But on other hand, it has been observed in various researches and studies that police have been imsusing the freedom of discretion.

Tillyer and Klahm (2011), Scarman (1978), Geoffrey P, Alpert Roger , Dunham Meghan (2006) in their studies point towards the need for limited discretion for police.