200WProtective services officers to establish and guard crime scenes

200W Protective services officers to establish and guard crime scenes (1) A police officer may direct a protective services officer on duty to establish and guard a crime scene at any place (including on a vehicle or vessel). (2) For the purposes of subsection (1) and without limiting that subsection, a protective services officer may exercise any of the following functions at the crime scene— (a) establish the crime scene boundaries, including by the use of inner and outer cordons; (b) establish an entry and exit point at outer cordons of the crime scene; (c) prevent a person entering the crime scene if the protective services officer considers that the person has no reason to justify entry; (d) preserve evidence, including by preventing the evidence from being lost, interfered with, damaged or destroyed; (e) establish and keep written records of the crime scene, including a log or plan; (f) appoint a person to keep the written record of the crime scene, including a record of persons who enter and exit the crime scene. (3) Without limiting subsection (1), a protective services officer may do the following in the exercise of the function under subsection (2)(a)— (a) restrict a vehicle from passing through the boundary of the crime scene created by use of the outer cordon; (b) direct vehicle traffic that is at or within the immediate vicinity of the outer cordon. (4) The exercise of a function by a protective services officer under this section does not prevent the exercise of any other function of the protective services officer under an Act or law. Part 12—Police Registration and Services Board Division 1—Establishment and functions 201 Establishment of PRS Board (1) There continues to be a Police Registration and Services Board. (2) The PRS Board— (a) is a body corporate with perpetual succession; and (b) must have a common seal; and (c) may sue and be sued; and (d) may acquire, hold or dispose of real and personal property; and (e) may do and suffer all acts and things that a body corporate may by law do and suffer. (3) The common seal of the PRS Board must be kept as directed by the Board and may only be used as authorised by the Board. (4) All courts must take judicial notice of the common seal on a document and, until the contrary is proved, must presume that the document was properly sealed. (5) The PRS Board is the same body as that established by section 87 of the **Police Regulation Act 1958** as in force immediately before the commencement of section 278 of this Act.