Article 1.　The objective of the present Law is to determine the necessary means to be taken by the officials of both National Rural Police and Police of Autonomous Entities (hereinafter to be called as a police official) for the performing faithfully such authorities and duties of protecting lives, persons and properties of the people, preventing crimes, maintaining public safety as provided for by the Police Law (Law No.196 of 1947) and the enforcement of other laws and ordinances.

Article 2.　A police official may stop and question any person who, police official has sufficient ground to suspect, committed or is about to commit a crime whatever, judging reasonably from the person's unusual actions and or other surrounding circumstances or who, a police official considers, has information of the crime having already been committed or about to be committed.

Article 3.　In case when a police official, judging reasonably from the person's unusual actions and or other surrounding circumstances, finds a person falling clearly under any of the following items and has reasonable ground to believe that the subject person is requiring urgent relief and protection, the police official shall, with the least possible delay, give protection on him or her in such an appropriate place as a police station, hosptial, mental institution or relief facilities:

Article 4.　In case of a dangerous situation, such as a natural calamity, incident or destruction of a structure, traffic accident, explosion of a dangerous thing, appearance of a mad dog or of a runaway horse, excessive conjestion or the like which threatens to cause an injury on the lives and persons of the people or a serious damage on the properties of them, a police official may give a necessary warning to a person who happens to be on the scene, keeper of the subject thing and any other person concerned with it and in case of especially admitting of no delay, he may check such person or order the person under threatening danger take refuge to the limit required for escaping from the impending danger or order a person who happens to be on on the scene, keeper of the subject thing and any other person concerned with it to take measures generally considered necessary for preventing the danger as well as he may take himself such measures as mentioned above.

Article 5.　A police official may in case when he considers any crime or offence is about to be committed, give a necessary warning to every person concerned with it in order to prevent from it and stop an act of a person in case where the act threatens to cause an injury on the lives and persons of the people or a serious damage on the properties of them, and that the case is so urgent that it admits of no delay.

Article 6.　In case where any dangerous situation provided for in the preceding two Articles has come to pass and the lives, persons or properties of the people are in jeopardy, if a police official considers it inevitably necessary for preventing the danger, holding the spread of damages in check, or giving relief to the sufferers, he may enter any person's lands, building, vessel or vehicle, to the limit considered as reasonably required for taking such measures.

Article 7.　A police official may use a weapon in case where he has reasonable ground to consider it necessary for the apprehension of a criminal, guarding against escape, defence of him or another person or oppression of a serious resistance to the limit considered as reasonably required in accordance with its circumstances;provided that he shall not injure any person except the case falling under Article 36 (Legal Defence) of the Criminal Law (Law No.45 of 1907) or of Article 37 (Emergent Refuge) of the same Law or the case falling under any of the following items:

Article 8.　In addition fo the foregoing, police officials shall carry out duties and exercise powers granted under the Law concerning Criminal Prosecution and other laws and police regulations.