If the police search an address in error, they must pay to repair any damage which is caused – including damage to a door.

While you’d need highly specialized machinery to create most manmade magnets, you can create your own simple electromagnet or conduct in-depth electromagnet projects at home or in school!

If you can find a very strong magnet, repeatedly rub it across your weakened magnet. The strong magnet will realign the magnetic domains inside the weakened magnet [source: Luminaltech]. Magnet stacking One way to make weak magnets stronger is by stacking more of them together.

Definition A person commits malicious injury to property if he unlawfully and intentionally damages: [24.1] property belonging to another; or. [24.2] his own insured property, intending to claim the value of the property from the insurer.[19]

Generally, citizens can (successfully) sue the police for infliction of emotional distress in one of two instances, when an officer: intentionally or recklessly acts in a way that causes emotional injury or. causes emotional distress through a negligent act.

From Hill v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire4 onwards, the English courts have held that the public policy implications of finding the police liable for negligence in the course of the investigation or suppression of crime are so detrimental that the police must be granted immunity from negligence.

The Supreme Court held that there is an operational duty to investigate crime and to conduct a proper inquiry into behaviour amounting to a breach of article 3 ECHR. Police officers are likely to be in breach of their duties under article 3 if there are serious errors during the investigation.

The police might try and talk you out of it. If you withdraw your statement, the case might still go to court if the police think they have enough evidence to prosecute the suspect. If you want to withdraw your statement because you’re worried about giving evidence, you should tell the police how you feel.