Where a member of An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na reasonably suspects that any of the above offences have been committed or attempted or that a person has committed any such offence or attempted to do so, the member may arrest the person without a warrant if he reasonably suspects that unless he is arrested, he may abscond for the purpose of evading justice or will obstruct the course of justice,<\/p>\n
Having made inquiries, has reasonable doubts as to his identity or has reasonable grounds for believing that there is an immediate serious risk to the child’s health or the welfare of the child concerned.<\/p>\n
Where a member of An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na arrests a person under the above powers and has reasonable grounds for believing that there is an immediate and serious risk to the safety, health or wellbeing of the child, and would not be sufficient for the protection of the child from such immediate and serious risk to await the making of an application for an emergency care order, the member may remove the child to safety, provisions of the childcare legislation will apply.<\/p>\n
For the purpose of arresting a person, a member of An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na, accompanied by others as may be necessary, may enter and search any place.<\/p>\n\n
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The Child & Proceedings In the case of any of the offences of child mistreatment and neglect etc., it is not necessary for the child in respect of whom the offence was committed to be brought before the Court or to be present for all or part of the proceedings.\u00a0 The Court may of its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[296,61],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2711"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20736,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions\/20736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}