Legislations that give power to police

[acroviak]

Hey
Im wanting to find out of what legislation gives the right for the police to have, and use power over people.

Im wanting a UK law, althought i'd assume most of them are all very simular

[Buenchico]

There are hundreds of pieces of legislation relating to police powers in the UK. However, the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 sought to bring together, and to update, many earlier statutes. It remains the principal piece of legislation, currently in force, relating to UK police powers:
http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?LegT ype=All+Legislation&title=police+criminal+evid ence&searchEnacted=0&extentMatchOnly=0&confers Power=0&blanketAmendment=0&sortAlpha=0&TYPE=QS &PageNumber=1&NavFrom=0&parentActiveTextDocId= 1871554&ActiveTextDocId=1871554&filesize=10883 91

Subsequent legislation, such as Parts IV and V of the Terrorism Act 2000, gives the police additional powers under certain circumstances:
http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?LegT ype=All+Legislation&title=terrorism&Year=2000& searchEnacted=0&extentMatchOnly=0&confersPower =0&blanketAmendment=0&sortAlpha=0&TYPE=QS&Page Number=1&NavFrom=0&parentActiveTextDocId=18518 52&ActiveTextDocId=1851852&filesize=642342

Chris