If you think someone has committed a crime against the Crimes Act 1961, you can arrest them without a warrant. You must believe they committed the crime for a good reason. If you arrest them, you will not get in trouble for making a mistake, as long as you had a good reason to think they committed the crime.
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Where any offence against this Act has been committed, every one who believes, on reasonable and probable grounds, that any person has committed that offence is protected from criminal responsibility for arresting that person without warrant, whether or not that person committed the offence.
