Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) This section applies to a place while a crime scene is in effect at the place under section 210H.
(2) A police officer may exercise any of the following powers if it is reasonably necessary to immediately exercise the power to protect or preserve evidence relating to the offence:
(a) enter the place, or any part of the place;
(b) enter any other premises to access the place;
(c) control the movement of people or things at the place;
(d) direct a person at the place to give the police officer the person's name and home address;
(e) if the police officer reasonably suspects a person possesses evidence removed from the place or has interfered with evidence at the place—detain, and conduct a frisk search or ordinary search of, the person;
(f) do any of the following in relation to all or part of a thing that might reasonably be evidence relevant to the commission of an offence:
(i) cover the thing at the place;
(ii) move the thing within the place;
(iii) photograph and in any other appropriate way record the thing before anything is done with the thing under subparagraphs (i) or (ii);
(g) if the place is a conveyance—remove the conveyance from its original location and take it to a secure place.
Examples—par (c)
1 direct a person not to enter or to leave the place
2 remove a person or thing from the place, or direct another person to remove the person or thing
3 prevent a person from interfering with or removing evidence from, or otherwise obstructing an investigation at, the place
(3) A power under subsection (2) includes the power to use reasonable and necessary force to do those things.