Power to stop, detain and search etc.
27R Power to stop, detain and search etc.
(1) If a police officer reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to protect the safety of any person, including the officer, who is in or near the suspect place when a covert search warrant is being executed, the warrant authorises the officer to exercise the following powers:
to stop and detain a person who is in the place;
to search the person;
to order the person to leave the place or its vicinity;
to order a person not to enter a place or its vicinity;
(e) to seize and retain any weapon or other thing in the place that could endanger a person.
(2) For section 112(1) of the Criminal Code, a person detained under subsection (1)(a) is in the lawful custody of the officer while so detained.
Subdivision 3 Execution and currency of covert search warrant
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