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Question 1 Introduction In 1960 a survey conducted for the Willink Commission showed that a majority of the public had great respect for the police but by the mid-1970s this positive relationship between the police and the public was being lost.1 There were concerns that the balance between the rights of the citizen and the powers that the police may exercise were being lost. The police have special powers to stop and search someone suspected of having committed a criminal offence but because at this stage the suspect, in this case Arnold, is deemed innocent, it is said there is a careful balance to be struck between the liberties of the individual and the protection of society.2 In response to the claims that the balance between the individuals rights and the community interests had been lost the government established the Philips Commission. The Report of the Philips Commission had as its philosophical...

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