PACE
The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 ("PACE") provides the police with core powers to prevent, detect and investigate crime. In particular, it makes provision about powers of stop and search (Part 1); entry, search and seizure (Part 2); arrest and bail (Part 3); detention (Part 4); interviewing, taking and retention of fingerprints and intimate and non intimate samples (for example, for the purposes of DNA profiling) (Part 5); and the issuing of Codes of Practice (Part 6). The Codes of Practice made under PACE govern the use of those powers. There are eight such Codes as follows:
	Code A - Exercise by police officers of statutory powers to search a person or a vehicle without first making an arrest and the need for a police officer to make a record of a stop or encounter;
	Code B - Police powers to search premises and to seize and retain property found on premises and persons;
	Code C - Requirements for the detention, treatment and questioning of suspects not related to terrorism in police custody by police officers;
	Code D - Main methods used by the police to identify people in connection with the investigation of offences and the keeping of accurate and reliable criminal records;
	Code E - Audio recording of interviews with suspects in the police station;
	Code F - Visual recording with sound of interviews with suspects;
	Code G - Powers of arrest under section 24 of PACE (which provides the statutory power for a constable to arrest without warrant for all offences);
	Code H - requirements for the detention, treatment and questioning of suspects related to terrorism in police custody by police officers.