1.   Failure to comply with that instruction might give rise to a charge of obstructing the police in addition to that of obstructing the highway.

2.   His actions in doing so in fact obstructed the police.

3.   His deliberate act was in fact obstructing the police who were making a lawful arrest, and that was sufficient mens rea.

4.   It is an offence to obstruct the police during the course of their duty.

5.   It is an offence to obstruct the police in their efforts to search for evidence of a drug offence.

6.   They charged Dad with obstructing the police, and claimed that all our injuries had been sustained in the struggle.

7.   Unbelievably, they were later fined for, respectively, wilful damage and assault, and obstructing the police.

8.   Wilkins also pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer in the execution of his duty, and Parratt to obstructing the police.

9.   She was charged with obstructing police.

10.   An army unit posted to the compound obstructed the police, leading to the botched operation, one minister said.