... such as looking after neighbour hoods and working towards stopping underage drinking and protecting areas that are crime spots. They work towards maintaining public order and the queen's peace. In English law, the Queen's peace (or King's peace, when a male monarch is on the throne) is the protection the monarch offers their subjects so if someone breeches the peace by e.g. by being drunken disorderly when this happens a police constable if there is reasonable belief that the person would remain there and, that they would continue with their course of conduct and a Breach of the Peace would occur. Breach of the Peace in police terms is usually used to remove violent or potentially violent offenders from a scene rapidly the only punishment that can be inflicted by a court for this offence is to "bind over" the offender to keep the peace. They have to deal with ...

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