Criminal Code (Cap. 9)
Criminal Code (Cap. 9), article 355X
355X. (1) Any police officer may arrest without warrant anyone
who is in the act of committing or has just committed a crime
punishable with imprisonment, or whom he reasonably suspects to
be about to commit or of having just committed such a crime.
(2) Any police officer may also proceed to the arrest of any
person in respect of whom an alert for his arrest has been ente red in
the Schengen Information System.
(3) Any police officer may also proceed to the arrest of any
person who knowingly, or after due warning, obstructs or distur bs
him in the execution of his dutie s, or disobeys his lawful orde rs.
(4) The powers mentioned in sub-articles (1), (2) and (3) shall
only be exercised until it is st rictly necessary for the police officer
to convey the person arrested to a police station and deliver h im to
a superior officer not bel ow the rank of sergeant.
Detention
without warrant
under Schengen
Information
System.
Added by:
L.N. 274 of
2007.
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