POLICE —
CERTIFICATES OF SERVICE
1262. Hon MICHAEL MISCHIN to the minister representing the
Minister for Police:
I refer to certificates of service
for a summons completed by police officers.
(1) Is it the
practice for police officers to write the letters ''RTS'' in the ''person
served'' signature field of such a certificate?
(2) What does
such a notation mean and under what circumstances is the notation to be used?
Hon STEPHEN DAWSON
replied:
I thank the honourable member for
some notice of the question. The following information has been provided to me
by the Minister for Police. Western Australia Police Force advises the
following.
(1) There is no
provision for a ''person served'' signature on a form 4 from the
Criminal Procedure Act. Only the serving officer is to sign it. There is,
however, the provision for the signature of the person served in the
certificate of service for a violence restraining order form 2.
(2) ''RTS'' normally means ''refused
to sign''. It is used if the person being served refuses to sign the
document.