Safety & Security Concepts

Powers of Security Guards and Patrolmen in NSW

New South Wales Crimes Act, 1900

Section 352
Any constable or other person may, without warrant, apprehend:
(a) any person in the act of committing or immediately after having committed, an offence punishable, whether by indictment or summary conviction, under any Act, (b) any person who has committed a felony for which he has not been tried: and take him or any property found upon him before a Justice to be dealt with according to law.

Therefore a security officer or patrolman may arrest a person (as may any member of the public) in the act of, or immediately after having committed any offence punishable by indictment or summary conviction or any felony for which he has not been tried.

He or she may not arrest a person on suspicion alone. That power is only vested in a member of the NSW Police Service.

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