Singapore legislation
Section 13
Section 13
Police officers may arrest persons loitering about licensed dealers’ shops under suspicious circumstances
(1)
Any police officer, having reason to believe that a person in or loitering about a licensed dealer’s shop under suspicious circumstances has with him any stolen property, may detain that person and require him to produce any property which he has with him.
(2)
If any property is produced which the police officer has reason to suspect to be stolen property, he may take or cause to be taken the person and the property to the nearest police station there to be dealt with according to law.
(3)
If any person so required to produce such property refuses to be searched, the police officer may take him or cause him to be taken before a Justice of the Peace who, if he sees fit, may search the person or order him to be searched and, if any such property is found, may detain him with the property so found to be dealt with according to law.