Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) This section applies if a police detention decision is made in relation to a person.
(2) While the police detention decision is in effect in relation to a person—
(a) any police officer may take the person into custody; and
Note
See also section 6D(2AA) of the Corrections Act 1986 .
(b) any police officer may detain the person.
(3) A police officer may, for the purpose of taking a person into custody under a police detention decision or preventing the person from escaping from detention under this Part, exercise any of the powers that the officer would have if the officer were apprehending the person under a belief on reasonable grounds that the person—
(a) had committed an indictable offence in Victoria; or
(b) was escaping from legal custody.
(4) Subsection (3) does not apply to the extent to which particular powers are provided for in this Part.
S. 13AI inserted by No. 32/2018 s. 9.