| Section 494 of the Criminal Code permits the arrest of a person whom one finds committing an indictable offence. |
| He points out that serious crime, indictable offences, fell by 21 per cent, from 102,484 offences to 81,274 offence in the five-year period. |
| A public nuisance is a crime indictable at common law and restrainable by injunction at the suit of the Attorney-General. |
| In Australia, our serious crimes are called indictable offences, but that term can also include shoplifting. |
| Your Honour, the scheme of the legislation, as we say, is dealing with commission of indictable offences. |
| They've got power to arrest people, this is without warrant, who they believe on reasonable grounds have committed serious indictable offences. |
