Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) In this section
—
involved person means an involved person who is an
adult.
(2) If an officer
reasonably suspects —
(a) that
an offence has been committed; and
(b) that
an identifying particular of an involved person, obtainable by means of a
non-intimate identifying procedure, will afford evidence of the commission of
the offence or of who committed the offence,
the officer may
request the person to consent to undergoing the non-intimate identifying
procedure to obtain the identifying particular.
(3) An officer who
requests an involved person to consent to an identifying procedure must at the
time inform the person of these matters —
(a) the
offence that is suspected of having been committed and to which the procedure
relates; and
(b) the
purpose of the procedure; and
(c) how
the procedure will be done; and
(d)
that, subject to the person’s decision, information derived from the
procedure may be compared with or put in a forensic database; and
(e) the
circumstances in which destruction may be requested under section 69; and
(f) that
if the person should become a suspect for the offence, evidence provided by
the procedure could be used in a court against the person; and
(g) that
the person may decide whether —
(i)
to limit the forensic purposes for which information
derived from the procedure may be used; or
(ii)
to allow the information to be used for unlimited
forensic purposes;
and
(h)
that, if the procedure is done, the person may subsequently change the
decision on the matters in paragraph (g) by notifying the Commissioner of
Police; and
(i)
that the person may consent or refuse to consent to the
procedure; and
(j)
that, if the person consents to the procedure, he or she may withdraw consent
at any time before the procedure has been completed.