Singapore legislation
Clause 75
Clause 75
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 his view commits an offence under this Ordinance or any rule made thereunder:Provided that such person shall not be arrested if he satisfies the police officer as to his name and residence in Singapore and that he does not intend to abscond.
(2)
A police officer may detain any bicycle or tricycle in respect of which an offence has been committed within his view.
(3)
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 Ordinance or any rules made thereunder.
(4)
Any person driving a motor vehicle shall stop the motor vehicle on being so required by a police officer in uniform and if he fails so to do shall be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance.
(5)
A police officer in uniform may, save 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 Ordinance or any rules made thereunder.
(6)
The power of arrest under subsection (5) of this section shall not be exercised if either —
such person on the demand of the police officer produces his driving licence so as to enable such officer to ascertain the name and address of the holder of the licence, the date of issue and the authority by which it was issued; or
such 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 such officer his name and a place of address within Singapore:Provided that if such officer has reason to suspect that a name or address so ascertained or given is false, he may, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this subsection, exercise the power of arrest under subsection (5) of this section.
(7)
The Registrar or any officer authorized in writing by the Registrar in that behalf on production of such 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 any such vehicle, and any person driving a vehicle shall stop such vehicle on being so required by the Registrar or any such officer as aforesaid, and if he fails to do so, he shall be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance.
(8)
Any police officer in uniform may, when exercising any of the powers conferred by subsections (3), (5) and (7) of this section, require any person, who appears to him to be or to have been a passenger in the motor vehicle in relation to which he is exercising those powers to furnish to him his name and address.
(9)
When any such person as is referred to in subsection (8) of this section refuses on the demand of the police officer in uniform to give his name and address, he may be arrested by such police officer in order that his name and address may be ascertained, and he shall within twenty-four hours from the arrest be taken before a Magistrate’s Court, unless before that time his name and address are ascertained, in which case such person shall be forthwith released on his executing a bond with or without sureties for his appearance before a Magistrate’s Court, if so required.
(10)
When any person is thus taken before a Magistrate’s Court, the Court shall require him to execute a bond with or without a surety for his appearance before a Magistrate’s Court if so required. [76]