13. Police officers may arrest persons loitering about licensed dealers’ shops under suspicious circumstances
Feedback & supportAny 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.
person
“person” includes a firm or a person carrying on business in a firm’s name;
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.
stolen property
“stolen property” means property the possession whereof has been transferred by theft, or by extortion, or by robbery, and property which has been criminally misappropriated or in respect of which criminal breach of trust or cheating has been committed whether the transfer has been made or the misappropriation or breach of trust or cheating has been committed within or without Singapore; but if such property subsequently comes into the possession of a person legally entitled to the possession thereof, it then ceases to be stolen property;
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.