What are the procedures to making a citizen arrest?

How Do I Make A Citizen's Arrest from Ask Yahoo

Making A Citizens Arrest

It seems that writing down all the pertinent info and then calling the police is the best idea!

Thanks Fuse. I had wondered how would a person let you arrest them. I admit, I did think that you had to wrestle them and hold them somehow. I see that's not a good idea now.

Fuse, that last link did not work for me. I was curious as to what it said.

Honi, if you try to make a citizen's arrest by restraining someone, invariable you will also be arrested on assault and battery charges. At least that is how it is here in GA. I actually know someone who carries handcuffs and a whip in the back of his car in case he needs to make a citizen's arrest. He has recently moved here from California and was stunned to find out that he would be the one charged if he tried to restrain someone while waiting for the police to show up.

Well back here in the 1890's we's do it all the time, you take yous 6 shooter and blow away, the local sheriff ain't gonna mind, heck, you take the burden off him to round up those bandits....



In all honestly there is no one "safe" way to make a citizens arrest. As pointed out, you put cuffs on somebody (without their consent) you are liable to serve more time than they!

We have the police, Miranda Rights, and special laws and treatments that were not even existing in the 1960's, Since the Civil Rights movement and a lot of bad arrests made by professionals, the law can be extremely hard on the person who did the arrest, some times the criminal gets off scott free.

As for those cuffs and whip in the trunk, I seriously doubt that they are for making a citizens arrest, sound more like Folsom Street Fair fun than police work to me.