PREVENTIVE ACTION OF
POLICE
Chapter 11 of criminal procedure
code, the statute, deals with preventive action of the police.
Section 149 gives power to police to
prevent cognizable offences. Every police officer may interpose for the purpose of
preventing, and shall, to the best of his ability, prevent, the commission of
any cognizable offence.
Section 150 speaks about information
of design to commit cognizable offences. Every police officer receiving information
of a design to commit any cognizable offence shall communicate such information
to the police officer to whom he is subordinate, and to any other office whose
duty is to prevent or take cognizance of the commission of any such offence.
Section 151 speaks about arrest to
prevent the commission of cognizable offences.
1. A police officer knowing
of design to commit any cognizable offence may arrest, without orders from a
magistrate and without a warrant, the person so designing, if it appears to
such officer that the commission of an offence cannot be otherwise prevented.
2. No person arrested under
sub section (1) shall be detained in custody for a period exceeding twenty four
hours from the time of his arrest unless his further detention is required or authorized
under any other provisions of this code or of any other law for the time being
in force.
Section 152 speaks about prevention
of injury to public property.
A police officer may of his own
authority interpose to prevent any injury attempted to be committed in his view
to any public property movable or immovable, or the removal or injury of any
public landmark or body or other mark used for navigation.
Section 153 inspection of
weights and measures.
1. Any officer in charge of a
police station may without a warrant, enter any place within the limits of such station
for the purpose of inspecting or searching for any weights or measures or instruments for weighing, used
or kept therein, whenever he has reason to believe that there are in such place
of any weights, measures or instruments for weighing which are false.
2. If he finds in such policy
any weights, measures or instruments for weighing which are false, he may
seize the same, and shall forthwith give
information of such seizure to a magistrate having jurisdiction
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