"You do not have to say anything; but it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court. Anything that you do say may be given in evidence."
This is called the Miranda Warning or Right to Silence. Yes, it is a long one, and most often when you watch Police Interceptors, Road Wars, Police Camera Action etc etc, once the bad guys got caught, the police will just say all of these out, and the bad guys will just totally ignore them anyway, but it 's a procedure after all. Maybe during this long speech, the bad guys might already thinking how to make a quick get-away but most often failed to do so, or just swearing that their innocent and telling the cops they got the wrong one.
I had this topic yesterday, and my lecturer was an ex-cop, his suggestion?
"SHUT UP!!! YOU'RE NICKED!!!"
Four words, and typically it covers everthing. Make's the cop's life easier isn't it???
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