SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4Powers exercisable by police civilians

Part 1Community Support Officers

2Power to detain etc.

1

This paragraph applies if a designation applies it to any person.

2

Where that person has reason to believe that another person has committed a relevant offence in the relevant police area, he may require that other person to give him his name and address.

3

Where, in a case in which a requirement under sub-paragraph (2) has been imposed on another person—

a

that other person fails to comply with the requirement, or

b

the person who imposed the requirement has reasonable grounds for suspecting that the other person has given him a name or address that is false or inaccurate,

the person who imposed the requirement may require the other person to wait with him, for a period not exceeding thirty minutes, for the arrival of a constable.

4

A person who has been required under sub-paragraph (3) to wait with a person to whom this Part of this Schedule applies may, if requested to do so, elect that (instead of waiting) he will accompany the person imposing the requirement to a police station in the relevant police area.

5

A person who—

a

fails to comply with a requirement under sub-paragraph (2),

b

makes off while subject to a requirement under sub-paragraph (3), or

c

makes off while accompanying a person to a police station in accordance with an election under sub-paragraph (4),

is guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

6

In this paragraph “relevant offence”, in relation to a person to whom this paragraph applies, means any offence which is—

a

a relevant fixed penalty offence for the purposes of the application of paragraph 1 to that person; or

b

an offence the commission of which appears to that person to have caused—

i

injury, alarm or distress to any other person; or

ii

the loss of, or any damage to, any other person’s property;

but a designation applying this paragraph to any person may provide that an offence is not to be treated as a relevant offence by virtue of paragraph (b) unless it satisfies such other conditions as may be specified in the designation.