CHAPTER XIII
PREVENTIVE ACTION OF THE POLICE
149. Police to prevent cognizable offences.__Every policeofficer may interpose for the purpose of
preventing, and shall, to the best of his ability, prevent, the commission of any cognizable offence.
150. Information of design to commit such offences. Every policeofficer receiving information of a
design to commit any cognizable offence shall communicate such information to the policeofficer to whom
he is subordinate, and to any other officer whose duty it is to prevent or take cognizance of the commission
of any such offence.
151. Arrest to prevent such offences.__A policeofficer knowing of a design to commit any cognizable
offence may arrest, without orders from a Magistrate and without a warrant, the person so designing, if it
appears to such officer that the commission of the offence cannot be otherwise prevented.
152. Prevention of injury to public property. A policeofficer may of his own authority interpose to
prevent any injury attempted to be committed in his view to any public property, moveable or immoveable,
or the removal or injury of any public landmark or buoy or other mark used for navigation.
153. Inspection of weights and measures.__(1) Any officer in charge of a policestation may, without a
warrant, enter any place within the limits of such station for the purpose of inspecting or searching for any
weights or measures or instruments for weighing, used or kept therein, whenever he has reason to believe
that there are in such place any weights, measures or instruments for weighing which are false.
(2) If he finds in such place any weights, measures or instruments for weighing which are false, he may
seize the same, and shall forthwith give information of such seizure to a Magistrate having jurisdiction.
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PART V
INFORMATION TO THE POLICE AND THEIR POWERS TO INVESTIGATE
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CHAPTER XIV
154. Information in cognizable cases. Every information relating to the commission of a cognizable
offence if given orally to an officer in charge of a policestation, shall be reduced to writing by him or under
his direction, and be read over to the informant ; and every such information, whether given in writing or
reduced to writing as aforesaid, shall be signed by the person giving it, and the substance thereof shall be
entered in a book to be kept by such officer in such form as the 1[Provincial Government] may prescribe in
this behalf [:]2
2[Provided that if the information is given by the woman against whom an offence under section 336B,
section 354, section 354A, section 376 or section 509 of the Pakistan Penal Code, 1860 (Act XLV of 1860)
is alleged to have been committed or attempted, than such information shall be recorded by an investigating
officer in presence of a female police officer or a female family member or any other person with consent of
the complainant, as the case may be.
1 Subs. by A.O., 1937, for "L.G.”.
2 Added by Act XLIV of 2016,s.8.
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