200HPolice custody officers to transport and supervise arrested persons at Chief Commissioner's direction

200H Police custody officers to transport and supervise arrested persons at Chief Commissioner's direction (1) The Chief Commissioner may direct a police custody officer to do any of the following— (a) transport a person who is under lawful arrest and who is in a police station to any place (including to a hospital, court, police gaol or another police station); (b) transport a person who is under lawful arrest from any place (including from a hospital, court, police gaol or another police station) to a police station; (c) supervise a person who is being transported under paragraph (a) or (b); (d) supervise a person at a place to which the person has been transported, or from which the person will be transported, under paragraph (a) or (b). (2) If the Chief Commissioner has directed a police custody officer to transport or supervise a person under subsection (1), a police custody officer may transport that person to, and supervise that person at, a hospital or other facility at which medical assessments, care or treatment are provided, if it is necessary to do so. (3) A police custody officer must comply with a direction of the Chief Commissioner. (4) A person who is being transported or supervised by a police custody officer under this section is taken to be in the legal custody of the Chief Commissioner while being transported or supervised. S. 200I inserted by No. 59/2015 s. 7.