Section 5 Devs 1

• 1. It is believed the arrest is necessary
• A) To enable the name of the person in question to be ascertained (in the case where a Constable does not know and cannot readily ascertain, ‘the person’s name or has reasonable grounds for doubting whether a name given by the person as his name is his real name)
• b) correspondingly as regards the person‘s address
• C) to prevent the person in question -
• i. Causing physical injury to himself or any other person;
• ii. Suffering physical injury;
• iii. Causing loss or damage to property;
• iv. Committing an offence against public decency (subject to section (6)); or
• v. Causing unlawful obstruction of the highway;
• d) to protect a child or other vulnerable person from the person in question;
• e) to allow prompt and effective investigation of the offence or of the conduct of the person in question;
• f) to prevent any prosecution for the offence from being hindered by the disappearance of the person in question.