Part IV Police Powers
Powers of police to take body samples
54 Powers of police to take intimate body samples.
1
Section 62 of the M1Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (regulation of taking of intimate samples) shall be amended as follows.
2
After subsection (1) there shall be inserted the following subsection—
1A
An intimate sample may be taken from a person who is not in police detention but from whom, in the course of the investigation of an offence, two or more non-intimate samples suitable for the same means of analysis have been taken which have proved insufficient—
a
if a police officer of at least the rank of superintendent authorises it to be taken; and
b
if the appropriate consent is given.
3
In subsection (2)—
a
after the word “authorisation” there shall be inserted the words “
under subsection (1) or (1A) above
”
; and
b
in paragraph (a), for the words “serious arrestable offence” there shall be substituted the words “
recordable offence
”
.
4
In subsection (3), after the words “subsection (1)” there shall be inserted the words “
or (1A)
”
.
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