Authorised assistants—Act, sch 6
8 Authorised assistants—Act, sch 6
For the Act, schedule 6, definition authorised assistant, an assistant is authorised in relation to a crime scene if—
the assistant is not a police officer; and
in the opinion of the responsible officer at the crime scene, the assistant has specialised knowledge or skills of a kind necessary for exercising a power mentioned in section 176(1) of the Act at the crime scene; and
Examples—
• a doctor, pathologist or forensic scientist
• a photographer or fingerprint expert
• an electrician, carpenter or locksmith
• a person who can operate an excavator or another machine
the responsible officer, or an investigating police officer, asks the assistant to exercise the power at the crime scene.
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