{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-policing-act-2026/section-87",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-policing-act-2026/section-87.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2026/20",
  "legislation_title": "Crime and Policing Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-policing-act-2026",
  "path": "section/87",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "87",
  "heading": "Section 85: reasons to suspect child sex offence may have been committed",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of section 85, a person (P) is given reason to suspect that a child sex offence may have been committed in each of the following cases (and no others).\n(2) The first case is where P witnesses conduct constituting a child sex offence.\n(3) The second case is where a child communicates to P something which would cause a reasonable person who engages in the same relevant activity as P to suspect that a child sex offence may have been committed.\n(4) The third case is where a person (A) communicates to P something which would cause a reasonable person who engages in the same relevant activity as P to suspect that A may have committed a child sex offence.\n(5) The fourth case is where—\n(a) P sees an image or hears an audio recording, and\n(b) a reasonable person who engages in the same relevant activity as P would suspect that the image shows, or the audio recording is of, conduct constituting a child sex offence.\n(6) The fifth case is where P sees an image, and a reasonable person who engages in the same relevant activity as P would suspect that possession of the image may constitute a child sex offence.\n(7) In this section “image” means a still or moving image, produced by any means.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 87 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 255(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/20/section/87",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:58.060228+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}