Section 29Part 4 — Powers, Duties and Privileges of Police Officers
Duty to keep order in public places
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29. (1) It is a duty of the Service —
to regulate and control traffic;
to divert all or any particular kind of traffic, when it is in the public interest so to do;
to keep order on public roads, streets, thoroughfares and landing places, and at other places of public resort or places to which the public have access; and
to prevent obstruction on the occasions of assemblies and processions on the public roads and streets, and in any case when any public road, street, thoroughfare or landing place may be thronged or may be liable to be obstructed.
A person who opposes or disobeys any lawful order given by a police officer in the performance of that police officer’s duty under this section commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of three thousand dollars or to imprisonment for one year or to both, and may be arrested without a warrant and the cause of any obstruction shall be removed or caused to be removed by the police officer to the police pound pursuant to the provisions of the Traffic Act (2021 Revision).