Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000

This section applies if a police officer takes a thing under section 443(3) from a person who is taken to a place of safety under section 53BQ(2).

A police officer may give the thing—

if the place of safety is the person’s home—to a person at the home who is an adult member of the person’s family; or

if the place of safety is the home of a friend or relative of the person—to the friend or relative for safe keeping while the person is at the place; or

otherwise—to the person apparently in charge of the place of safety for safe keeping while the person is at the place.

The person to whom the thing is given must give the police officer a signed receipt in the approved form for the thing and, if the place of safety is not the home of the person from whom the thing was taken, must return the thing to that person before the person voluntarily leaves the place of safety.