Smith v Chief Constable of Sussex Police
House of Lords
“Considerations of public policy precluded the imposition of a common law duty of care on police who, in discharging their public duty of combating and investigating crime, had not protected a member of the public from a violent attack, the risk of which and the identity and whereabouts of the likely attacker he had reported to them.”
The Times, 4th August 2008
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