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Police Administration Act 1978
128Circumstances in which a person may be apprehended
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128 Circumstances in which a person may be apprehended
(1) A member may, without warrant, apprehend a person and take the
person into custody if the member has reasonable grounds for
believing:
(a) the person is intoxicated; and
(b) the person is in a public place or trespassing on private
property; and
(c) because of the person's intoxication, the person:
(i) is unable to adequately care for himself or herself and it
is not practicable at that time for the person to be cared
for by someone else; or
(ii) may cause harm to himself or herself or someone else;
or
(iii) may intimidate, alarm or cause substantial annoyance to
people; or
(iv) is likely to commit an offence.
(2) For the purposes of carrying out his duties under subsection (1), a
member may, without warrant, enter upon private property.
(2A) A member who takes a person into custody under subsection (1), or
any other member, must establish the person's identity by taking
and recording the person's name and other information relevant to
the person's identification, including photographs, fingerprints and
other biometric identifiers.
(3) A member of the Police Force who takes a person into custody
under subsection (1) may:
(a) search or cause to be searched that person; and
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(b) remove or cause to be removed from that person for safe
keeping, until the person is released from custody, any money
or valuables that are found on or about that person and any
item on or about that person that is likely to cause harm to that
person or any other person or that could be used by that
person or any other person to cause harm to himself or
another.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (3), the person of a woman shall not
be searched except by a woman.
(5) All money or valuables taken from a person under subsection (3)
shall be recorded in a register kept for that purpose and shall be
returned to that person on receipt of a signature or other mark
made by that person in the register.
(6) A member may use the force that is reasonably necessary to
exercise a power under this section.