UK woman arrested for confiscating daughters’ iPads to let them focus on studies

Speaking to LBC, Brown explained that she had taken the iPads to motivate her daughters to concentrate more on their studies. The Surrey Police later traced the devices to her mother’s home in Cobham and found that the iPads belonged to her children, concluding that Brown had every right to confiscate them.

“At no point did (the officers) think to themselves, ‘Oh, this is a little bit of an overreaction for a moment, confiscating temporarily her (own) iPads and popping over to her mum’s to have a coffee’. It was just a complete overreaction,” Brown said, as reported by The Guardian.

Brown also complained that police pulled out one of her daughters from her classroom at school to investigate the incident. “They were able to send a police car with police officers to my children’s school, they were able to send another police car or two to arrest me … I know people are making reports of thefts, of assaults and very violent crimes in and around our neighbourhood – and they’re not getting a response for days,” she argued.

Despite facing criticism from former police and crime commissioner Anthony Stansfeld, Surrey Police stood by their decision not to issue an apology. They explained that officers had gone to Brown’s daughter’s school solely out of initial concerns for the child’s welfare.