As a free nation, law enforcement officers are expected to have justice but also restraint within the justice system. This canon ensures that officers enforce the law and understand and respect the limits of their authority. As Barker (2011) states regarding the duty of police officers, “They must carry out their duties and exercise their authority within the limits of the law. All actions taken are subject to verification of their legality” (p.23). Limiting the authority under which peace officers must operate sometimes presents ethical dilemmas; these same limitations also push agents to experiment within the limits of the law, through investigative and interrogation techniques. Peace officers overall understand their authoritarian rights; however, these same rights have acted as a catalyst for other ethically questionable behavior. Officers are expected to solve cases and obtain confessions whenever possible, which has required the officer to resort to tactics that at first glance serve a utilitarian purpose. Agents approach the use of questionable but legal interrogation tactics from a utilitarian approach, in which it examines the outcome and positive effect of actions to produce the greatest good for the most people. This utilitarian approach to the solution