Arrest without warrant

(1) A member of the Belize Police Department may arrest without warrant any person who has committed or is about to commit, or whom a member of the Belize Police Department, with reasonable cause, suspects to have committed or is about to commit, an offence under this Act. (2) Where any controlled drug is found on any premises searched pursuant to section 25(1), or in any ship, vessel, boat, aircraft, vehicle or other means of conveyance of any description stopped under section 25(2), the member of the Belize Police Department who has made the search or stopped the ship, vessel, boat, aircraft, vehicle or other means of conveyance of any description, as the case may be, may arrest without warrant any person in such premises, or in such ship, vessel, boat, aircraft, vehicle or other means of conveyance of any description whom he has reason to believe to have committed an offence under this Act. (3) This section shall not prejudice any power of arrest conferred by law apart from this section. (4) Reference to an offence in this section means any offence under this Act or any regulations made thereunder.