13. Power to arrest persons loitering suspiciously about secondhand goods dealer’s shop
Feedback & supportAny police officer, having reason to believe that a person in or loitering about the shop of any secondhand goods dealer under suspicious circumstances has any stolen property with him or her, may arrest that person and require that person to produce any property which that person has with him or her.
shop
“shop” includes a stall, house, flat, place of business, place of storage of secondhand goods, an administrative office or any other premises from which the business of a secondhand goods dealer is being carried out, whether electronically or otherwise;
Where any property is produced by any person under subsection (1) and if the police officer has reason to suspect that property to be stolen property, the police officer may take the person and the property, or cause the person and property to be taken, to a police station to be dealt with according to law.
stolen property
“stolen property” means property, the possession of which has been transferred by theft, extortion or robbery, 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 out of Singapore; but does not include such property which subsequently comes into the possession of a person legally entitled to the possession of the property.