Section 28
When police officer may arrest without warrant
(1)
Any police officer or District Officer may, without an order from a Magistrate and without a warrant, arrest -
(a)
any person who has been concerned in any seizable offence or against whom a reasonable complaint has been made or credible information has been received or a reasonable suspicion exists of his having been so concerned;
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any person having in his possession without lawful excuse, the burden of proving which shall lie on such person, any implement of house breaking;
(c)
any person who has been proclaimed under section 49;
(d)
any person in whose possession anything is found which may reasonably be suspected to be stolen or fraudulently obtained property and who may reasonably be suspected of having committed an offence with reference to such thing;
(e)
any person who obstructs a police officer while in the execution of his duty or who has escaped or attempts to escape from lawful custody;
any person reasonably suspected of being a deserter from the Royal Brunei Armed Forces or Royal Brunei Police
Force or Gurkha Reserve Unit or any visiting force present for the time being in Brunei Darussalam by virtue of any written law or by virtue of any lawful arrangement made by or on behalf of
Brunei Darussalam;
(d any person taking precautions to conceal his presence under circumstances which afford reason to believe that he is taking such precautions with a view to committing a seizable offence;
O any person who has no ostensible means of subsistence or who cannot give a satisfactory account of himself;
(i)
any person who is by repute a habitual robber, housebreaker or thief or a habitual receiver of stolen property knowing it to be stolen or who by repute, habitually commits extortion or in order to commit extortion, habitually puts or attempts to put persons in fear of injury;
0) any person in the act of committing in his presence a breach of the peace;
(k)
any person subject to the supervision of the police who fails to comply with the requirements of section 265.
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(2)
Nothing in this section shall be held to limit or to modify the operation of any other written law empowering a police officer or District
Officer to arrest without a warrant.
Refusal to give name and residence or naming residence outside Brunei