Registration of Criminals Act 1949

a police officer;

an officer of customs of the Singapore Customs in any case concerning an offence or alleged offence against any law or provision of law which is the function of the Singapore Customs to enforce;

an immigration officer;

a forensic specialist acting in accordance with an authorisation under section 65B(1) of the Police Force Act 2004 to exercise a power under this Act;

an officer of any law enforcement agency in any case concerning an offence or alleged offence against any law or provision of law which it is the function of that agency to enforce; and

any other person who is duly appointed in writing by the Commissioner of Police as an authorised officer for the purposes of this Act or any provision of this Act;

a sample of blood;

a sample of head hair, including the roots of the head hair;

a swab taken from an individual’s mouth; or

any other sample that is prescribed under subsection (2);

punishable by imprisonment;

not a registrable crime; and

not compoundable under any written law (unless the offence is specified in the third column of the Fourth Schedule to the Criminal Procedure Code 2010);

taking an impression or cast of a wound from the external parts of the individual’s body other than the parts referred to in subsection (3);

the taking of physical measurements (whether or not involving marking) for biomechanical analysis of an external part of the body other than the parts referred to in subsection (3);

removing any article that the individual is wearing, and searching any article so removed;

removing a relevant thing attached physically to those external parts of the individual’s body or taking a sample of that relevant thing;

photographing any relevant thing in the position it is found on the external parts of the individual’s body, or in the individual’s mouth;

any description of the individual, including —

the individual’s sex;

the individual’s age or apparent age;

the individual’s bodily appearance; and

the individual’s height;

any document that contains information that identifies the individual;

any finger impression of the individual;

any name of the individual or any name by which the individual is or is believed to have been known;

any photograph of the individual;

the individual’s identifying information;

any record of any other particulars about the individual that has been made under section 9(2)(b)(iii), 10(2)(a)(ii)(C) or 11(4)(a)(ii)(C) or (6)(b)(iii);

the particulars of —

any conviction for a registrable crime;

any sentence or order for that conviction; or

any order of banishment, deportation, expulsion or removal,in respect of the individual; and

any particulars of any charge for an offence (whether or not a registrable crime) that was taken into consideration in determining and passing sentence on the conviction for the registrable crime;