Criminal Procedure Code 2010 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 6 · Arrest and Bail and Processes to Compel Appearance
66. Arrest by private person
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Any private person may arrest any person who, in the private person’s view or presence, commits an arrestable non‑bailable offence, or who has been proclaimed as an offender under section 88.
bailable offence
“bailable offence” means an offence shown as bailable in the fifth column of the First Schedule or which is made bailable by any other written law, and “non‑bailable offence” means any offence other than a bailable offence;
The private person must, without unnecessary delay, hand over the arrested person to a police officer.
police officer
“police officer” has the meaning given by the Police Force Act 2004;
If there is reason to believe that the arrested person is a person mentioned in section 64(1), a police officer must re‑arrest him or her.
If there is reason to believe that the arrested person has committed a non-arrestable offence and he or she refuses to give his or her name and residential address when required by a police officer, or gives a residential address outside Singapore, or a name or residential address that the police officer has reason to believe is false, the arrested person may be dealt with under section 65.
non-arrestable offence
“non-arrestable offence” and “non‑arrestable case” mean, respectively, an offence for which and a case in which a police officer may not ordinarily arrest without warrant according to the third column of the First Schedule or under any other written law;
If there is no reason to believe that the arrested person has committed any offence, he or she must be released at once.
A person who commits an offence against any other person (called in this subsection the victim) or the victim’s property may, if —
property
“property” means money and all other property, movable or immovable, including things in action and other intangible or incorporeal property;
the person’s name and residential address are unknown;
the person gives a residential address outside Singapore; or
the person gives a name or residential address which the victim or any person who is using the victim’s property in relation to which the offence is committed, or which the employee of either of those persons, or which any person authorised by or acting in aid of either of those persons, has reason to believe is false,be apprehended by the victim, employee or such person mentioned in paragraph (c).
The person apprehended under subsection (6) may be detained until he or she can be delivered into the custody of a police officer, and subsections (3), (4) and (5) thereafter apply.
If any person being lawfully apprehended under subsection (6) assaults or forcibly resists the person by whom he or she is so apprehended, he or she shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000.
fine
“fine” means any fine or financial penalty imposed by any court upon any conviction of any offence;