412.272 - Order of apprehension, arrest or confinement. - Nevada Statutes

412.272  Order of apprehension, arrest or confinement.

      1.  An enlisted member may be ordered into arrest or confinement by any commissioned officer by an oral or written order, delivered in person or through other persons subject to this code or through any person authorized by this code to apprehend persons. A commanding officer may authorize warrant officers or noncommissioned officers to order enlisted members of his or her command or subject to his or her authority into arrest or confinement.

      2.  A commissioned officer or warrant officer may be ordered apprehended or into arrest or confinement only by a commanding officer to whose authority he or she is subject, by an order, oral or written, delivered in person or by another commissioned officer. The authority to order such persons apprehended or into arrest or confinement may not be delegated.

      3.  No person may be ordered apprehended or into arrest or confinement except for probable cause.

      4.  This section does not limit the authority of persons authorized to apprehend offenders to secure the custody of an alleged offender until proper authority may be notified.

      (Added to NRS by 1967, 1311)