POLICE POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT 2000 - SECT 444
Powers relating to thing taken from person taken to place of safety
POLICE POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT 2000 - SECT 444
Powers relating to thing taken from person taken to place of safety
444 Powers relating to thing taken from person taken to place of safety
(1)
This section applies if a police officer takes a thing under section 443(3)
from a person who is taken to a place of safety under section 378.
(2) A
police officer may give the thing—
(a) if the place of safety is the
person’s home—to a person at the home who is an adult member of the
person’s family; or
(b) if the place of safety is the home of a friend or
relative of the person—to the friend or relative for safe keeping while the
person is at the place; or
(c) otherwise—to the person apparently in
possession or in charge of the place of safety for safe keeping while the
person is at the place.
(3) The person to whom the thing is given must give
the police officer a signed receipt in the approved form for the thing and, if
the place of safety is not the home of the person from whom the thing was
taken, must return the thing to that person before the person voluntarily
leaves the place of safety.
