Arrest

An arrest is the action of police or other authority, or even in some circumstances a private civilian, to apprehend and take under guard a person who is suspected of committing a crime. The term is Frankish in origin and is related to the French word Arr?t, meaning "stop". In many legal systems, an arrest requires mere verbal information to suspects that they are under arrest on suspicion of a given crime; the laying of hands or restraints upon the person of the suspect is usually not required to effect an official and valid arrest.

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Contrary to popular belief, reading of the Miranda warning or similar information to an arrestee is not required upon arrest. It is required only prior to questioning by a detaining authority, and then again only in the US, most Commonwealth and other common law jurisdictions, and other countries where the right to legal counsel, the right to silence, and the right against self-incrimination have been clearly established.

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If the crime is serious, the usual procedure followed by police is to take suspects to a police station or a jail where they will be incarcerated pending a judicial bail determination or arraignment hearing. In other instances, the police will issue a notice to appear specifying where a misdemeanor or infraction suspect is to appear for his arraignment.

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Ordinarily only human beings can be arrested, but recent and somewhat controversial changes to criminal codes have allowed for the arrest not only of the usual "contraband, evidence, fruits, and instrumentalities" of crime, but also of inanimate objects such as money, automobiles, houses, and other personal property under asset forfeiture.

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Police: :This article is about law enforcement. For the band, see The Police. For the town in Poland, see Police, Poland....

Civilian: A civilian is a person who is not a member of a military. Under the Fourth Geneva Convention it is a war crime to deliberately attack a non-combatant civilian or wantonly and unnecessarily destroy or take the property of a civilian....

Crime: A crime in a broad sense is an act that violates a political or moral law. In the narrow sense, a crime is a violation of the criminal law. For example, most traffic violations or breaches of contract are not crimes in a legal sense....

Arrest related Images and Photos (experimental)

The Arrest of Vautrin'	Arrest of the Metropolitan Philip 1910	Arrest of the Conspirators at Cirencester	Arrest of Jesus on the Mount of Olives Judas Kiss
The Arrest of Christ Detail Showing Judas Kissing Christ 1765	The Arrest and Supplication of Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)	The Arrest of Christ and Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane	The Arrest of Robespierre "The Night of the 9th to 10th Thermidor Year II 27th July 1794"
Attempted Arrest of 5 Members of the House of Commons by Charles I 1642 1868	Arrest of the Generals Lecomte and Clement Thomas during the Paris Commune	The Arrest of the Governor of the Bastille 14th July 1789 1790-95