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PART V
SERVICE OUTSIDE SINGAPORE
56.
—(1) Subject to subsections (3) and (7), the Minister may —
(a)
on a request in that behalf being made by, or with the consent of, a government of a territory outside Singapore;
(b)
in connection with the deployment of a United Nations force in a territory outside Singapore; or
(c)
in connection with any overseas operation in a territory outside Singapore pursuant to any arrangement with a government of a territory outside Singapore,
order such number of police officers or special police officers as to him seems expedient to proceed outside Singapore to carry out police duties in such territory.
(2) In making an order under subsection (1), the Minister shall specify the purposes for which the police officers or special police officers are to carry out police duties outside Singapore or in any territory outside Singapore.
(3) The Minister shall not make an order under subsection (1) unless he is satisfied that adequate provisions have been or will immediately be made in the territory outside Singapore for the proper carrying out of police duties by police officers and special police officers in that territory, which may include provisions —
(a)
that all police officers and special police officers serving in that territory under the provisions of this Part shall remain under the orders of their own commanding officers; or
(b)
that all police officers and special police officers serving in that territory under the provisions of this Part shall be conferred with the powers, duties and privileges of police officers in that territory.
(4) The Commissioner may issue directions of a routine nature for the deployment, command, control and information of police officers and special police officers ordered under subsection (1) to proceed outside Singapore to carry out police duties outside Singapore.
(5) No direction under subsection (4) shall be inconsistent with subsection (3).
(6) All police officers and special police officers ordered under subsection (1) to proceed outside Singapore for service shall comply with every direction issued under subsection (4).
(7) No special police officer shall be liable to serve or proceed on duty outside Singapore unless he first consents to such service.
(8) In this section, “overseas operation” includes any overseas operation involving peacekeeping, the maintenance or restoration of law and order or functioning of government institutions or similar activities (whether or not in conjunction with personnel from one or more other countries).
[Police Force 1985 Ed., ss. 40, 41 (1), 42, 43 and 65 (3)]
57. Subject to section 59, a police officer or special police officer who is —
(a)
temporarily attached to the forces of another territory, or otherwise serving outside Singapore, pursuant to any order made under section 56;
(b)
a member of a United Nations force; or
(c)
a member of any overseas operation referred to in section 56(1)(c),
shall not cease to be subject to this Act by reason only of his being so temporarily attached, or being such a member or outside Singapore.
58.
—(1) Section 59 shall apply to any act done or omitted outside Singapore by any police officer or special police officer while —
(a)
he is serving outside Singapore pursuant to any order made under section 56;
(b)
he is a member of a unit of the Police Force forming part of a United Nations force serving outside Singapore; or
(c)
he is a member of any overseas operation referred to in section 56(1)(c) and is outside Singapore.
(2) For the purposes of this section —
(a)
a person shall be deemed to start serving outside Singapore pursuant to an order made under section 56 from the time he leaves Singapore to undertake those duties until the time he returns to Singapore;
(b)
a unit of the Police Force shall be deemed to form part of a United Nations force from the time the unit leaves Singapore to undertake duties with the United Nations force until the time the unit returns to Singapore; and
(c)
a person shall be deemed to be a member of any overseas operation referred to in section 56(1)(c) from the time he leaves Singapore to undertake duties with the overseas operation until the time he returns to Singapore.
59.
—(1) If any police officer or special police officer to whom this section applies does, or omits to do, any act outside Singapore (whether or not the act or omission concerned constitutes an offence under the laws in force in the territory where it took place) that if done or omitted within Singapore would constitute an offence, that act or omission is deemed to have taken place within Singapore unless —
(a)
the person is subject to the criminal jurisdiction of the territory in which the act or omission took place; and
(b)
the authorities in that territory —
(i)
are not subject to any obligation to cede jurisdiction to the Singapore authorities in respect of that act or omission; and
(ii)
bring criminal proceedings against the police officer or special police officer, as the case may be, in that territory.
(2) No information shall be laid against any police officer or special police officer over whom jurisdiction is claimed by virtue of subsection (1) without the consent of the Attorney-General.
(3) If any police officer or special police officer is alleged to have committed an offence in respect of which the laying of information requires the consent of the Attorney-General under subsection (2), the police officer or special police officer concerned may be arrested and detained in custody or remanded in custody or on bail, even though the consent of the Attorney-General has not been obtained to the making of such complaint in respect of that offence, but no further proceedings shall be taken until that consent is obtained.
(4) If any police officer or special police officer to whom this section applies does, or omits to do, any act outside Singapore, and that act or omission would, if it occurred in Singapore, be a disciplinary offence for the purposes of this Act —
(a)
the person may be investigated and, if appropriate, proceeded against under this Act by way of disciplinary proceedings under Part III or VIII, whichever is applicable, and punished, in the same manner as if the act or omission had occurred in Singapore; and
(b)
for that purpose, this Act and either the Police Regulations or the Special Constabulary Regulations, as the case may be, shall apply to him with any necessary modifications.