Can a police officer enter a house and make an arrest without a warrant in a hot pursuit?
Manitoba, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Higgs, 2006 CanLII 10380 (MB PC):
A police officer has the power to enter a dwelling house and make an arrest without a warrant in situations of hot pursuit if the officer has reasonable and probable grounds to make an arrest as described in R v. Feeney.15 Were there reasonable grounds to make the arrest without the warrant here?
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