POLICE POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT 2000 - SECT 641 Functions of watch-house officers

POLICE POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT 2000 - SECT 641

641 Functions of watch-house officers

(1) A watch-house officer has the functions and powers conferred on a watch-house officer by this Act.

(2) Subsection (1) applies subject to any directions of the commissioner or the watch-house manager for the watch-house and the terms of the person’s appointment that are consistent with any Act applicable to a watch-house officer.

(3) To remove doubt, it is declared that a watch-house officer is not taken to be a police officer merely because the watch-house officer has, under this chapter, some of the same functions and powers as a police officer.

(4) Also, this division does not limit the powers of a police officer to do something a police officer may otherwise do under this Act in relation to a person in custody at a watch-house.