The law also prohibits police from demanding identification from or stopping persons based solely on suspicion, and it prohibits physical abuse by police against detained persons (see section 1.

Section 25 of the 1803 Act gave power to constables to stop and detain persons suspected of having goods stolen from vessels in the harbor.

One justification for this comes in the crossbow's ability to stop persons carrying explosives without risk of causing detonation.

Silas, bewildered by the changes thirty years had brought over his native place, had stopped several persons in succession to ask them the name of this town, that he might be sure he was not under a mistake about it.

In a document submitted to the court, he wrote: "I was directed and urged to stop and search persons who fit the profile if I wanted to make 'good arrests.'

This deposit, the government believed, was required as an indication of good faith on the part of accusers: 'it stops malicious persons from bringing frivolous or-vexatious complaints.'

There were reports in 1998 that Ministry members in Kabul stopped persons on the street and demanded that they recite various Koranic prayers in order to determine the extent of their religious knowledge.

Replacement powers to stop and search persons and vehicles[9] 60.

They were not under instructions to stop persons who came from Professor Murkden's lecture.

However, this did not stop unscrupulous persons from buying trade dollars at bullion value, and using them for payment as $1 to unsuspecting workers and merchants.