Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

PRISONS REGULATIONS 1982 - REG 25

25 .         Procedure before the use of firearms

        (1)         Before using a firearm against a prisoner or other person, a prison officer shall, where it is practicable in the circumstances to do so — 

            (a)         order the prisoner or person to halt;

            (b)         if the prisoner or person so ordered refuses or neglects to halt, the prison officer shall immediately call aloud “halt or I’ll fire” or words to similar effect.

        (2)         Before using a firearm against a prisoner or other person, a prison officer may, where it is practicable in the circumstances to do so, fire a warning shot.

        (3)         In exercising his discretion whether to use or to continue to use a firearm, a prison officer shall have regard to the risk, in the immediate circumstances, of injury which the use of fire power would impose upon any person other than the prisoner or person against whom fire power may be used.

        [Regulation 25 amended in Gazette 24 Dec 1982 p. 4907.]

        [Heading inserted in Gazette 7 Apr 2000 p. 1820.]