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There are two camps when it comes to the Government鈥檚 proposal to loosen citizen鈥檚 arrest laws.
The measure is being pitched as a remedy for retail crime, by allowing workers and the public to detain suspected thieves with "reasonable force".
However, concerns have been raised about the risks involved and what constitutes 鈥渞easonable force鈥.
Otago University Law Professor Andrew Geddis believes the proposal is risky, telling Kerre Woodham it seems like an extreme expansion of the power for one particular problem.
He says it also runs the risk of someone carrying out a citizen鈥檚 arrest only for the police to be unable to attend to it, potentially creating a false promise for retailers.
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