Police owe a legal duty to the public:

Police owe a legal duty to the public:

That the police authorities owe a legal duty to the public to enforce the law is clear from a decision of the Court of Appeal, reported in R. v. Metropolitan Police Commr. (1968) 1 All ER 763, where Lord Denning, M. R. observed at page 769 as follows:

"hold it to be the duty of the Commissioner of police, as it is of every chief constable to enforce e the law of the land...............but in all these things he is not the servant of anyone, save of the law itself. The responsibility for law enforcement lies on him. He is answerable to the law and to the law alone".