ID Card Please! No Sir: Dissecting Power of LEAs in Document Checks
Citizens across the globe, especially in Pakistan mostly are asked a frequent yet debatable query and demand for identity cards and other documents on a daily basis by the Police. Be it the scheduled checkpoints or informal exchanges, the police officers habitually ask the citizens to show their identification documents. Though such actions are meant to guarantee security and uphold law and order, their legitimacy and legal sanctity have ignited much debate and raised significant concerns about individual rights and distresses like privacy invasion. The "equilibrium between the right to privacy and the concerns like security" is the epicentre of our analysis. From one perspective, promising security, peace and tranquillity and enforcing laws are the duties invested in the executive, however, the matter of Privacy invasion is yet another factor to be appraised by the LEAs.
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(1) Aisha Rasool
Director, Research & Publications, Federal Judicial Academy, Islamabad, Pakistan.
(2) Fazli Dayan
Associate Professor & Head Department/Associate Dean of Law, Faculty of Law, Grand Asian University Sialkot, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA : Rasool, A., & Dayan, F. (2023). ID Card Please! No Sir: Dissecting Power of LEAs in Document Checks. Global Social Sciences Review, VIII(IV), 36-41. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2023(VIII-IV).04
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CHICAGO : Rasool, Aisha, and Fazli Dayan. 2023. "ID Card Please! No Sir: Dissecting Power of LEAs in Document Checks." Global Social Sciences Review, VIII (IV): 36-41 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2023(VIII-IV).04
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HARVARD : RASOOL, A. & DAYAN, F. 2023. ID Card Please! No Sir: Dissecting Power of LEAs in Document Checks. Global Social Sciences Review, VIII, 36-41.
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OXFORD : Rasool, Aisha and Dayan, Fazli (2023), "ID Card Please! No Sir: Dissecting Power of LEAs in Document Checks", Global Social Sciences Review, VIII (IV), 36-41
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TURABIAN : Rasool, Aisha, and Fazli Dayan. "ID Card Please! No Sir: Dissecting Power of LEAs in Document Checks." Global Social Sciences Review VIII, no. IV (2023): 36-41. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2023(VIII-IV).04