Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) If a police
officer reasonably suspects a person is a serious offender and his or her
identifying particulars —
(a) are
not held or may not be held by the WA Police; or
(b) are
or may be needed to verify the person’s identity by comparison with
identifying particulars already held by the WA Police,
the police officer
may, within 6 months after the date on which the person became a serious
offender, request the offender, if it is practicable to do so, to consent to a
non-intimate identifying procedure being done on the offender for the purpose
of obtaining one or more of the offender’s identifying particulars.
(2) A police officer
who requests a serious offender to consent to a non-intimate identifying
procedure being done on the offender must at the time inform the offender of
these matters —
(a) the
purpose of the procedure;
(b) how
the procedure will be done;
(c) that
information derived from the procedure may be compared with or put in a
forensic database;
(d) the
circumstances in which destruction may be requested under section 69;
(e) that
the procedure may provide evidence that could be used in a court against the
offender;
(f) that
if the offender does not consent or withdraws consent to the procedure —
(i)
the offender may be arrested; and
(ii)
the procedure may be done on the offender against the
offender’s will.
[Section 52C inserted: No. 22 of 2013 s. 22.]