P-13.1, r. 1 - Code of ethics of Québec police officers

Article 10 Versions de la disposition

2012-09-01

10. A police officer must respect the rights of any person in his custody and avoid any indulgence towards that person.

A police officer must not:

1°  provide to a person in his custody alcoholic drinks, drugs, halucinogens, narcotic or anesthetic preparations or any other substance liable to cause drunkenness, weakness, impairment of faculties or unconsciousness, unless that person has a medical prescription;

2°  be negligent or lack concern regarding the health or safety of a person in his custody;

3°  obtain or attempt to obtain an undue advantage for a person in his custody;

4°  except where necessary, search a person of the opposite sex, be present during the searching of such a person or have a person in his custody searched by a person of the opposite sex;

5°  interfere in communications between a person in his custody and that person’s attorney;

6°  use greater force than necessary on a person in his custody;

7°  permit the incarceration of a minor with an adult or of a female person with a male person, except in cases provided for by law.

O.C. 920-90, s. 10.