Section 32Part 4 — Powers, Duties and Privileges of Police Officers
Elimination identification evidence
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32. (1) A police officer may take the photographs, descriptions, measurements, fingerprints, palmprints, footprints or other physical specimens of any persons who have been present at the scene of a crime for purposes of elimination only and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed.
Any fingerprints, palmprints or footprints taken pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be recorded on the form specified in Schedule 2.
Where a person refuses to submit to the taking of any means of identification authorised to be taken under subsection (1), that person commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of three thousand dollars or to imprisonment for one year or to both and upon such conviction a police officer may use reasonable force to take such means of identification.