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Street Cop Podcast

Asking for Consent to Search

Street Cop Podcast

Street Cop Training

Education

4.9933 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

In this archive episode, Dennis reminds officers that they are able to ask for consent even without reasonable suspicion or probable cause, as there is a right to refuse consent. Recorded on 03/19/2019.

Transcript

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0:00.0

One, one, one, got the way.

0:02.0

Uh-huh.

0:04.0

You know,

0:05.0

and uh, a hot down.

0:07.0

You trying to be a street cop?

0:10.0

Day one complete, Morris County Police Academy a lot of good

0:15.8

conversation going on a class and while I was teaching I thought man what

0:19.4

can I give these guys on the way home that's good advice to help you in the

0:22.3

field and one of those things

0:23.7

that I may have touched on in the past but it's been a while especially for new group

0:26.6

members welcome to the group you can use the search function here to look at different

0:30.7

videos that we have made all sorts of things and a lot of great stuff to come.

0:34.5

But you find yourself in a position where you're like, man, I think this guy has something on him or

0:39.6

I think this girl has something on them. How do I search them without probable cause? The great thing is, in this

0:45.8

country, you're allowed to ask for consent to search. Don't forget a reasonable suspicion

0:52.1

of criminal activities is required for

0:53.6

consent to search in the motor vehicle setting but not for the

0:55.8

person that's specific in New Jersey to a motor vehicle setting so for

1:00.9

anybody who's watching this video across the country, if you want to check

1:04.5

somebody for weapons and don't know how to go about it, if you want to check their

1:07.6

pockets or search them for contraband, whatever it may be, here's a simple way to do it. Hey, you mind if I check you to make

1:17.4

sure you don't have any weapons on you and most people are going to say sure and if

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