Your quote says nothing about the police having unique or extreme powers, it says only that individuals have no right to opt out of society&#x27;s defense mechanisms.<p>Further, your quoted line, that conflates aggregate consent with individual consent, while trying to distinguish them, making the utterly self-contradictory claim that &quot;no individual can chose to withdraw his or her consent&quot; , which comes from a 2012 commentary opinion by the Home Office, not the classic Peelian principles. (And it is likely a confusion of wording, not their actual understanding of the law or principles.)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;government&#x2F;publications&#x2F;policing-by-consent&#x2F;definition-of-policing-by-consent" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;government&#x2F;publications&#x2F;policing-by-conse...</a>