Section 60Part 4 — Powers, Duties and Privileges of Police Officers
Powers of arrest
←→ Navigate · Click subsection badges to collapse · Press ? for help
60. A police officer may, without an order from a Justice of the Peace and without a warrant, arrest any person —
whom the police officer suspects on reasonable grounds of having committed or to be about to commit an arrestable offence;
who commits in that police officer’s presence an arrestable offence;
who obstructs a police officer in the execution of that police officer’s duty, or who has escaped or who attempts to escape from lawful custody;
in whose possession anything is found which may reasonably be suspected to be stolen property or who may reasonably be suspected to have committed an offence with reference to such thing;
whom the police officer suspects on reasonable grounds of being a deserter from Her Majesty’s Navy, Army or Air Force;
whom the police officer suspects on reasonable grounds of having been concerned in any act committed in any place outside of the Islands which, if committed in the Islands, would have been punishable as an offence and Police Act (2021 Revision) Section 61 c Revised as at 31st December, 2020 Page 53 for which the person is under the Extradition Act 2003 of the United Kingdom [U.K.Act (c.41)], the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1967 or the Hijacking Act, 1971 [U.K. Act (c.70)] or otherwise liable to be apprehended and detained in the Islands;
whom the police officer suspects on reasonable grounds of having in that person’s possession, without lawful excuse, any instrument of house- breaking;
whom the police officer suspects on reasonable grounds of having unlawfully in that person’s possession any controlled drug or narcotic;
for whom the police officer has reasonable grounds to believe a warrant of arrest has been issued by a court in the Islands;
of loose, idle or disorderly character whom the police officer the police officer finds in any way disturbing the peace or causing public annoyance, or whom the police officer has reasonable cause to suspect of having committed or being about to commit any indictable offence, summary offence or breach of the peace;
whom the police officer finds between sunset and the hour of six o’clock in the morning lying or loitering in any street, highway, yard or other place, not giving a satisfactory account of themselves;
on board or about to board a ship, boat, aircraft or hovercraft or who has recently landed from any ship, boat, aircraft or hovercraft, whether or not such person has travelled thereon, whom the police officer has reasonable grounds to suspect has about their person any uncustomed or prohibited goods, arms or offensive weapon, and in such case detain such person for up to six hours for the purpose of being searched by a person of the same sex;
whom the police officer suspects on reasonable grounds to be remanded or bound over to answer a criminal charge before a court and to be about to leave the Islands without the permission of that court; or
whom the police officer suspects on reasonable grounds to have given security under section 64 of the Evidence Act (2021 Revision), to appear before a court and to be about to leave the Islands without the permission of that court while such security remains in force.