The Policing and Crime Act 2017 (Maritime Enforcement Powers: Revised Code of Practice) Regulations 2023
These Regulations bring into force on 15th March 2023 a revised Code of Practice to be followed by law enforcement officers when arresting a person under the power conferred by section 90 of the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (“the Code”). Chapter 5 of Part 4 of the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3) (“the Act”) sets out the maritime enforcement powers that are available to a law enforcement officer as defined by section 84(3) of the Act. The Code sets out the practice to be followed by such law enforcement officers when arresting a person under the power conferred by section 90 of the Act. Section 90 provides a power to law enforcement officers to arrest without warrant any person whom the law enforcement officer has reasonable grounds to believe to be guilty of an offence under the law of England and Wales that has been, or is being, committed on a ship in relation to which the power of arrest is exercisable.