Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)

9.   Power to require removal of vehicle or other article

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    (1)   A police officer shall, if he or she considers it necessary or expedient so to do within an escalated crime area, immediately have removed, any vehicle or article of any description within any area to some point outside that area.

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    (2)   Where a police officer is satisfied that it is necessary or expedient to take action under subsection (1), he or she may direct, orally or in writing, a person having or appearing to have control of any craft, vehicle, firearm, ammunition, explosive or inflammable substance, liquid or gas, detonator, petroleum product, dangerous drug or intoxicating liquor, immediately, to remove the vehicle or other articles to a place, being a place within a radius of ten miles of the place at which such thing is at the time of the direction, as may be specified by the person by whom the direction is given.