... to sparse, one example of this is that there were over 70 statues under which police had powers to stop and search. It also felt that crime investigation should be separated from criminal prosecution. This spawned the creation of the crown prosecution service in the 1980's. Before it's creation the police and the director of prosecutions were the ones in charge of the procedure. Therefore, the police acted as both the investigator and the and the prosecutors. One major concern was that the police would not gather sufficient information to prosecute, and may sometimes force false confessions in order to convict a suspected criminal. In 1984 the Police and Criminal Evidence act (PACE) was created. Its task was to modernise the law that governed police powers. Two of its major innovations included tape recording at interviews, and making it compulsory for police to take records of arrests, custody and any ...

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