Division 1 Duties of police officer on receiving information about offences
Division 2 Search and seizure
Division 3 Powers of investigation for offences related to statement recording
Division 1 Security for keeping peace and for good behaviour
Division 2 Proceedings following order to provide security
Division 3 Unlawful assemblies
Division 4 Preventive action of police
Division 1 Arrest without warrant
Division 2 Arrest with warrant
Division 3 General provisions for arrests with or without warrant
Division 4 Proclamation and attachment
Division 5 Bails and bonds
Division 6 Notice to attend court and bonds to appear in court
Division 7 Surrender of travel document and requirement to remain in Singapore
Division 8 Summons to appear in court
Division 1 General matters
Division 2 Criminal case disclosure procedures
Division 3 Non-compliance with Division 2
Division 4 Where criminal case disclosure procedures do not apply
Division 1 General matters
Division 2 [Repealed by Act 19 of 2018]
Division 3 [Repealed by Act 19 of 2018]
Division 4 [Repealed by Act 19 of 2018]
Division 5 Transmission proceedings
Division 6 Non-compliance with certain requirements in Division 5
Division 1 General pre-trial procedures
Division 2 When accused pleads guilty electronically
Division 3 Plead guilty procedures
Division 1 General provisions
Division 2 Transfer of cases
Division 3 Compounding of offences
Division 4 Previous acquittals or convictions
Division 5 Proceedings relating to persons of unsound mind
Division 1 Preliminary
Division 2 Admissibility of certain types of evidence
Division 3 Ancillary hearing
Division 4 Special provisions relating to recording or giving of evidence
Division 5 Witnesses
Division 1 Sentences in general
Division 2 Sentence of caning
Division 3 Suspensions, remissions and commutations of sentences
Division 1 Appeals
Division 1A Review of sentence of death when no appeal filed
Division 1B Review of earlier decision of appellate court
Division 2 Points reserved
Division 3 Revision of proceedings before State Courts
Division 4 Revision of orders made at criminal case disclosure conference
Division 5 Criminal motions
Division 1 [Repealed by Act 19 of 2016]
Division 2 Special proceedings — Order for review of detention
Division 3 — General provisions for arrests with or without warrant |
How to arrest |
No unnecessary restraint |
76. The person arrested must not be restrained more than is necessary to prevent his or her escape. |
Search of place entered by person sought to be arrested |
77.—(1) If a police officer with authority to arrest or a person acting under an arrest warrant has reason to believe that the person to be arrested is inside any place and demands entry to that place, any person residing in or in charge of the place must allow the police officer or person acting under an arrest warrant free entry and provide all reasonable facilities for a search in it.
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Search of person arrested and his or her premises |
78.—(1) Whenever —
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Power to seize offensive weapons |
79. Any police officer or person making any arrest under this Code may take from the person arrested any offensive weapons which the arrested person has about his or her person, and must deliver all weapons so taken to a police station. |
Search for name and address |
80. A person lawfully in custody who, because of incapacity from intoxication, illness, mental disorder, physical disability or infancy, cannot give a reasonable account of himself or herself may be searched to find out his or her name and address. |
Detention and search of persons in place searched |
81.—(1) Where a search for anything is lawfully made in any place in respect of any offence, every person found there may be lawfully detained until the search is completed.
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Mode of freeing persons |
82. A police officer or other person authorised to make an arrest may break open a place to free himself or herself or any other person who, having lawfully gone inside to make an arrest, is detained in it. |
Mode of searching women |
83.—(1) Except as provided in subsection (2), whenever it is necessary to cause a woman to be searched, the search must be made by a relevant officer who is a woman. [19/2018]
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Power to pursue and arrest after escape or rescue |
84.—(1) If a person in lawful custody escapes or is rescued, the person from whose custody he or she escaped or was rescued, or any police officer, may immediately pursue and arrest him or her for the purpose of returning him or her to the place where he or she was in lawful custody.
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Release of arrested person |
85. A person arrested by a police officer must not be released except on the person’s own bond or on bail, or by a written order of a court or of a police officer of or above the rank of sergeant. |
Public assistance in arrests |
86. Every person is bound to help a police officer or any other person authorised to make an arrest reasonably demanding the person’s aid —
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Assisting person other than police officer to execute warrant |
87. If a warrant is granted to a person who is not a police officer, any other person may help in executing the warrant if the person to whom the warrant is granted is near at hand and engaged in executing it. |