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The police can come up to your door or onto your property to talk to you unless you have told them not to. But they do not have the right to do this just to look around and see if they can find any evidence to use against you. And they don’t have the right to come onto your property if they can talk to you without doing so. For example, they might be able to talk to you over a fence if you are in your backyard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-46935","publications-page","type-publications-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n
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