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APCAT APCAT - Alberta Police Cognitive Ability Reading Comprehension Skills 2

Read the following excerpt and answer the question.
Section 9 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms states that everyone has the right not to be arbitrarily detained or imprisoned.

An arbitrary detention occurs when a person is stopped without reasonable grounds and without a lawful justification.

Courts have held that even brief investigative detentions must be based on specific and articulable facts.

According to the passage, when is a detention considered arbitrary?

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