4) Search and Surveillance Flashcards
Define unlawfully at large
- Arrest warrant
- prison breaker
- escapee from custody (under arrest)
- special patient (Mental Health Act))
- special care recipient (Intellectual Disability Act)
- young person absconding from OT custody
What general principles apply during search?
Search and Survellience Act 2012
- Lawful and reasonable
- Search hierachy - warrant/warrantless/consent
- Decision records
- Identification and notice - RAN/RAIN
- Force must be reasonable
- Search/seizure should be witnessed
- Property inventory
Section 7
Search and Survellience Act 2012
RGTB person in place or vehicle and RGTS unlawfully at large
- can enter place or vehicle to search and arrest
Section 8
Search and Survellience Act 2012
RGTS person has committed a imprisonable offence
and
RGTB that they will leave place or vehicle to avoid arrest or
CADD
- Enter place or vehicle to search and arrest
Section 14
Search and Survellience Act 2012
RGTS offence is being committed, cause injury to person or damage property
- Emergency power to enter place or vehicle and take any action required
Section 15
Search and Survellience Act 2012
RGTS serious offence (14+ years)
and
RGTB evidential material present and risk of CADD
* Enter and search
Section 16
Search and Survellience Act 2012
RGTB person in public place in possession evidential material related to a serious offence
* search person
Section 17
Search and Survellience Act 2012
RGTB that a vehicle in a public place contains evidential material related to serious offence
- enter and search
Section 18
Search and Survellience Act 2012
RGTS firearms in any place or vehicle
* enter, search and seize
Section 28
Search and Survellience Act 2012
RGTS that a person in a vehicle is committing an offence in public place and vehicle contains offensive weapon/knife/disabling substance
* search the vehicle
Section 27 - Search person
Section 27
Search and Survellience Act 2012
RGTS person committing offence in public place with offensive weapon/disabling substance
* search the person
Section 29
Search and Survellience Act 2012
RGTB stolen property in a vehicle
* search the vehicle in public place
Section 83
Search and Survellience Act 2012
RGTB evidential material in a place and if entry was delayed CADD would occur
* Enter the place to search
Section 84
Search and Survellience Act 2012
RGTB evidential material from offence is in a vehicle
* Enter and search the vehicle
Consent search
S92: reason to justify
S93: advise person re: consent and refuse
S94: Search unlawful if don’t do 92/93
S95: <14 can’t consent to vehicle/place search except driver and no adult present
<14 can consent to personal search
S96: rules don’t apply when COE include search