Discretion is a vague term that is applied to and used at all times, everywhere and in any situation. It is the decision making process and power to decide or act accordingly to one’s own judgment. A legitimate aspect of modern policing; the work by nature is discretionary as it involves the exercise of judgment and use of choice, through decision to investigating, to question, to search, to arrest, to caution (Cunneen and Libesman 1995). Unlike judges or parole boards, police have the ability to act more or less as autonomous beings in their line of work. A police officer is able to use his or her power of discretion to exonerate an offender by simply deciding to avoid official action, or may chose to ignore an offence completely. The appropriate
