Section 66Part 4 — Powers, Duties and Privileges of Police Officers
Arrest by private citizen
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66. (1) Any private person may arrest any person who in that private person’s view commits an arrestable offence.
A person found committing an offence involving damage to property may be arrested without a warrant by the owner of the property or that owner’s employees or persons authorised by that owner.
Where a private person arrests any person without a warrant, that private person shall without unnecessary delay deliver over the person so arrested to a police officer or, in the absence of a police officer, shall take the person to the nearest police station.
If there is reason to believe that such person comes within the provisions of section 60, a police officer shall re-arrest that person.
If there is reason to believe that such person has committed an arrestable offence, and the person refuses on the demand of a police officer to give that person’s name and address, or the person gives a name or address which the police officer has reason to believe to be false, that person shall be dealt with under section 30, but if there is no reason to believe that that person has committed an offence that person shall at once be released.