Section 31Part 4 — Powers, Duties and Privileges of Police Officers
Power to record identification
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31. (1) Subject to sections 34, 35, 36, 37 and 38, a police officer may cause to be taken, for use and record in the registry of the Service, photographs, descriptions, measurements, fingerprints, palmprints, footprints or other physical specimens of any person in lawful custody for any offence, whether such person has been convicted of such offence or not.
Where a person who is in lawful custody refuses to submit to the taking of any of the means of identification authorised to be taken under subsection (1), that person commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of three Police Act (2021 Revision) Section 32 c Revised as at 31st December, 2020 Page 21 thousand dollars or to imprisonment for one year, or to both and after conviction, reasonable force may be used to take such means of identification.