{"id":1363,"date":"2024-04-10T09:30:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T09:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/?post_type=topic&p=1363"},"modified":"2024-04-10T09:30:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T09:30:31","slug":"stopping-and-questioning-by-the-police-in-a-public-place","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/topic\/our-legal-system\/arresting-procedure-my-rights-and-obligations\/stopping-and-questioning-by-the-police-in-a-public-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Stopping and questioning by the police in a public place"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Under Section 54(1)<\/a> of the Police Force Ordinance<\/a> (Chapter 232<\/a>), it is lawful for a police officer to stop a person who is acting in a suspicious manner. The police officer may require that person to produce proof of identity (i.e. by showing a Hong Kong ID card or passport), and detain that person on the spot for a reasonable period to make enquiries into whether or not the person is suspected of having committed any offence at any time. What constitutes a “suspicious manner” is based only on the subjective assessment of the police officer. However, the police officer must, in fact, have a genuine suspicion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Section 49<\/a> of the Public Order Ordinance<\/a> (Chapter 245<\/a>) permits a police officer to require any person to produce proof of his identity for inspection for the purpose of preventing, detecting or investigating any offence. A failure by that person to produce proof of identity under these circumstances constitutes an offence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The police and immigration officers also have power under Section 17C(2)<\/a> of the Immigration Ordinance<\/a> (Chapter 115<\/a>) to demand any resident in Hong Kong aged 15 or above to produce proof of his identity for inspection. A failure by that person to produce proof of identity as required without reasonable excuse constitutes an offence and is liable to a fine of $5,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Under Section 54(1) of the Police Force Ordinance (Chapter 232), it is lawful for a police officer to stop a person who is acting in a suspicious manner. The police officer may require that person to produce proof of identity (i.e. by showing a Hong Kong ID card or passport), and detain that person on the spot for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","topic-type":[35,22],"class_list":["post-1363","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-type-arresting-procedure-my-rights-and-obligations","topic-type-our-legal-system"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic-type?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}