this has been superceded by PACE the police are alowed to use reasonable force but only if that force is proportionate and necessary that is the police. for a citizen they only have the power of a citizens arrest, there are a number of rules to make a citizens arrest lawful, firstly the person making such an arrest has to directly witness the perpetrator commiting the crime, they then have to instruct the accused person that they are enacting a citizens arrest and give the reason for that arrest then and only then are they entitled to request the accused person to wait with them for the arrival of the police, also under the law they are only allowed to hold them for a reasonable amount of time, the courts generally hold this time to be a max of 30 mins, this is to ensure that a person is not held indefinately, the person enacting the citizens arrest is only allowed to use such force as is deemed reasonable to prevent the offender fleeing.
the guard in the video is not just holding her arm he is dragging her and at times pushing her into a brick wall you are also assuming that the woman has committed some unlawful act, i would sggest to any readers of this response that you read items one through 7 below before you make any premature conclusions
The law on assault is that if someone aproaches you in manner which causes you to feel you are in threat of physical harm you do not need to actualy touch someone to have assaulted them.
The minute you put your hands on someone to restrain them or restrain them without justification that constitutes battery, assault is the threat of harm while battery is actual harm.
i now come to the way these guards have operated in the past.
1 these guards have taken action against people without directly witnessing any crime.
2 on aproaching their intented victim they have refused to state who they are or the reason for stopping them.
3 they have just attacked their intended victim in the most violent manner possible.
4 at a later date they have colluded in a meeting to ensure that their stories of the attacks are in complete allignment.
5 they have lied to their own superiors as well as the detainee to the nature of the actions they had taken (the head guard stated there had been no physical contact between the guards and the victims) later shown by CCTV to be totally untrue.
6 even after a victim has been shown to be innocent of any wrongdoing they have instructed the police to unlawfully detain their victim unlawfully for a further amount of time to enable the head guard to come and hand the victim a six month ban from the pavements shopping center an action of pure spite and vindictiveness
7 these guards have shown themselves to be amoral spitefull vindictive liars and bullies with no accountability to anyone including their corrupt cowardly bosses the Chesterfield Borough Council who when faced with irefutable evidence of wrongdoing will not act.
i must also point the finger at the police who had no right to hold a person after he was shown to be innocent of any wrongdoing, this was clearly a criminal act by the police in full support of these abusivly violent thugs masquerading as security guards
these guards DO NOT have anymore powers than any other citizen this is why they wear police style uniforms, this is to give the impression of an authority they do not have. it appears to me that the reason for these guards behaving in this manner is that they know they will be supported by certain corrupt police officers who are prepared to commit criminal acts to order and will do everything in their power to turn a blind eye to the guards criminality