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Police Act 1964

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19Jurisdiction of constables

(1)A member of a police force shall have all the powers and privileges of a constable throughout England and Wales.

(2)A special constable shall have all the powers and privileges of a constable in the police area for which he is appointed.

(3)Without prejudice to subsection (2) above, a special constable appointed for any police area shall have all the powers and privileges of a constable—

(a)in the case of a police area not being a county borough, in any other police area which is contiguous to his own police area and in any police area being a county borough which is contiguous to any such other police area;

(b)in the case of a police area being a county borough, in any other police area which is contiguous to the borough and in any area in which special constables appointed for any such other police area have those powers and privileges by virtue of paragraph (a) above.

(4)A special constable who is for the time being required by virtue of section 13 or section 14 of this Act to serve with another police force shall have all the powers and privileges of a constable in any area in which special constables appointed for the area for which that force is maintained have those powers and privileges under this section.

(5)Subsection (3) of this section shall apply to the City of London as if it were a county borough; and for the purposes of that subsection in its application to special constables appointed for the metropolitan police district, the county of Berkshire shall be deemed to be contiguous to that district.

(6)This section is without prejudice to section 5 of the Police (Scotland) Act 1956 (execution of warrants in border counties of England and Scotland) and to any other enactment conferring powers on constables for particular purposes.

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