AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE ACT 1979 - SECT 14E How arrested person to be dealt with

AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE ACT 1979 - SECT 14E

  (1)   A protective service officer who arrests a person for an offence must ensure that the person is delivered into the custody of a police officer as soon as practicable to be dealt with according to law.

  (2)   Where a weapon or other thing has been seized from the person under subsection   14D(5), the protective service officer must ensure that the weapon or other thing is delivered to the police officer into whose custody the person is delivered.

  (3)   In this section:

"police officer" means:

  (a)   a member or special member; or

  (b)   a member, however described, of a police force of a State or Territory; or

  (c)   a member, however described, of a police force of a foreign country.