Investigative detention

  1. The common law police power to briefly detain an individual, where on an objective view of the totality of the circumstances there is a clear nexus between the individual to be detained and a recent or on-going criminal offence, and the decision to detain is reasonable based on all the circumstances, including the extent to which the interference with individual liberty is necessary to perform the officer’s duty, the liberty interfered with, and the nature and extent of that interference.

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