Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) The Chief Commissioner may direct a police custody officer to do any of the following—
(a) transport a person who is under lawful arrest and who is in a police station to any place (including to a hospital, court, police gaol or another police station);
(b) transport a person who is under lawful arrest from any place (including from a hospital, court, police gaol or another police station) to a police station;
(c) supervise a person who is being transported under paragraph (a) or (b);
(d) supervise a person at a place to which the person has been transported, or from which the person will be transported, under paragraph (a) or (b).
(2) If the Chief Commissioner has directed a police custody officer to transport or supervise a person under subsection (1), a police custody officer may transport that person to, and supervise that person at, a hospital or other facility at which medical assessments, care or treatment are provided, if it is necessary to do so.
(3) A police custody officer must comply with a direction of the Chief Commissioner.
(4) A person who is being transported or supervised by a police custody officer under this section is taken to be in the legal custody of the Chief Commissioner while being transported or supervised.
S. 200I inserted by No. 59/2015 s. 7.