CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION ACT 2006 - SECT 19

CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION ACT 2006 - SECT 19

19 .         Stopping vehicles, powers in connection with

        (1)         If under this Act an officer may stop a vehicle, whether or not at a roadblock set up under section 18, the officer may use any means that are reasonably necessary in the circumstances to do so, including means that hinder or obstruct the passage of other vehicles.

        (2)         Subsection (1) does not authorise the use of means that are intended or are likely to cause death or grievous bodily harm to any person, whether or not in a vehicle.

        (3)         An officer who under this Act stops a vehicle in order to exercise a power in this Act in respect of the vehicle —

            (a)         may detain the vehicle for a reasonable period in order to exercise the power; and

            (b)         may move the vehicle to a place suitable to exercise the power.