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Criminal Law (Amendment) (Protection of Property) Bill

If a police officer giving pursuit to a drug dealer, for example, were in plain clothes and went across the building site that we talked about earlier, he would need not only to think about apprehending the criminal but to be cognisant of the fact that the security guard on the premises could use disproportionate force against him, not realising that he was a police officer because he was in plain clothes. Would not the police officer therefore have to take into account the fact that he might encounter disproportionate force simply because of the area in which he was pursuing the criminal?