Power Of Entry, search and Seizure

Question 1

PACE Section 17 allows you to:

Hint - ESCAPERS

Answer 1

Reasonable grounds to believe...
Execute warrant
Specified other offences
Child absent from care
Arrest for indictable offence
Pursuing person unlawfully at large
Escaped from detention centre
Rabies (stopping spread of animal disease 
Saving life or limb or preventing serious damage to property

Question 2

Section 18(1) of PACE allows you to:

Answer 2

Search premises (occupied or controlled) of person in custody for indictable offence with inspectors written authority when you have reasonable grounds you will find evidence of that offence, connected offence of similar offence.

Question 3

Section 18(5) of PACE allows you to:

Answer 3

Search before returning to police station for indictable (and either way) offences without the inspectors authority.
The dp must be present at the premise being searched.
Inspector must be informed as soon as practical.
Inspector to then make written record of the search

Question 4

Section 19 PACE allows you to:

Answer 4

Seize anything you have reasonable grounds for believing that

• it was obtained in the commission of an offence
• it is evidence relating to the offence or any other offence
• and it is necessary to prevent it being Concealed, Lost, Altered, Destroyed (CLAD)

Question 5

What is PACE Section 20 about?

Answer 5

Seizure of information in electronic form

Question 6

What is PACE section 21 about?

Answer 6

Providing copies of what was seized to the individual

Question 7

What is PACE Section 22 about?

Answer 7

The retention of seized property

Question 8

PACE Section 32 allows you to:

Answer 8

Search upon arrest of the individual. Also allows an officer to enter and search the premises where the person was arrested or was immediately before the arrest.