Singapore legislation
Section 127
Section 127
Power of arrest, stopping and detention
(1)
A police officer in uniform may stop and arrest any person, not being the driver of a motor vehicle, who within the police officer’s view commits an offence under this Act or the rules.
(2)
The person must not be arrested if he or she satisfies the police officer as to his or her name and residence in Singapore and that he or she does not intend to abscond.
(3)
A police officer may detain any bicycle or tricycle in respect of which an offence has been committed within the police officer’s view.
(4)
A police officer in uniform may stop any motor vehicle the driver of which has committed or is suspected of having committed an offence under this Act or the rules.
(5)
Any person driving a motor vehicle must stop the motor vehicle on being so required by a police officer in uniform, and if the person fails to do so he or she shall be guilty of an offence.
(6)
A police officer in uniform may, except as hereinafter provided, arrest without warrant any person in charge of or driving a motor vehicle who has committed or is suspected of having committed an offence under this Act or the rules.
(7)
The power of arrest under subsection (6) must not be exercised if either —
the person on the demand of the police officer produces his or her driving licence so as to enable the police officer to ascertain his or her name and address, the date of issue and the authority by which it was issued; or
the person, not being a paid driver or the driver of a motor vehicle used for the carriage of passengers for hire or reward or for the carriage of goods, gives the police officer his or her name and his or her address within Singapore.
(8)
If the police officer has reason to suspect that a name or address so ascertained or given is false, the police officer may, despite anything to the contrary in subsection (7), exercise the power of arrest under subsection (6).
(9)
The Registrar or any officer authorised in writing by the Registrar in that behalf on production of that authority or any police officer may stop any vehicle other than a motor vehicle, and any police officer in uniform may stop any motor vehicle, for the purpose of examining the licence of the vehicle.
(10)
Any person driving a vehicle must stop the vehicle on being so required by the Registrar or the officer under subsection (9), and if the person fails to do so the person shall be guilty of an offence.
(11)
Any police officer in uniform may, when exercising any of the powers conferred by subsection (4), (6) or (9), require any person, who appears to the police officer to be or to have been a passenger in the motor vehicle in relation to which the police officer is exercising those powers, to furnish to the police officer the person’s name and address.
(12)
When any person who is mentioned in subsection (11) refuses on the demand of the police officer in uniform to give his or her name and address, he or she may be arrested by the police officer in order that his or her name and address may be ascertained, and he or she must, within 24 hours from the arrest, be taken before a Magistrate’s Court, unless before that time his or her name and address are ascertained, in which case the person must be immediately released on his or her executing a bond with or without sureties for his or her appearance before a Magistrate’s Court, if so required.
(13)
When any person is taken before a Magistrate’s Court under subsection (12), the Court is to require him or her to execute a bond with or without a surety for his or her appearance before a Magistrate’s Court, if so required.