ABSTRACT
British police organizations in the 1950s and 1960s did not mention the modern idea of human rights as inherent ethical principles. Training focused on the legal requirement to inform persons who were arrested of the reason for their arrest and their right to remain silent. e link was not made between the legal requirement and the human rights aspect. is distinction is important because it tends to establish why police ocers act the way that they do, generally, in application of the law rather than in consideration of human rights, and I shall return to this later. In 1948, the Universal Declarations of Human Rights was established as the primary global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled, asserting the recognition of human dignity of all people as the foundation of justice and peace in the world.
