page_title: Airport Police (Ireland)
section_title: General powers & status of officers
hierarchical_section_title: Airport Police (Ireland) / General powers & status of officers
caption_attribution_description: Dublin Airport Police Isuzu 05D82316 (w:Airport Police (Ireland))
context_page_description: The Airport Police Service is a small police force responsible for providing general security and aviation security duties at the three state airports in Ireland: Dublin Airport, Cork Airport and Shannon Airport. The Airport Police service was first founded in 1936 in Dublin Airport and first became "Authorised Officers" under section 15 of the Air Navigation and Transport Act 1950 for the Minister of Transport.
context_section_description: Members of the Airport Police Service have the powers to:
  Stop and search (this includes persons, their property, vehicles, aircraft and cargo in an airport).
  Demand a person's biographical details, evidence of one's identity and other relevant information.
  Detain persons (for such time as is reasonably necessary for the exercise of any of his/her powers under Section 33 Air Navigations & Transport Act 1988)
  Remove person's /Issue person's banning orders (these are usually issued in cases of Anti-Social Behaviour) to temporarily prohibit a person's re-entry to the airport.
  Arrest a person on the minister's land—this includes passenger terminals, cargo areas, car parks, on board aircraft, runways, radar sites or on any air navigation installation—this also includes any other roadways, land or property owned, leased or operated by the Dublin Airport Authority or Minister for Transport, even if it is located outside of an airport's security perimeter fence, for the purpose of handing such persons over to Gardai for investigation and prosecution
  Other powers of enforcement conferred upon them, such as those detailed within the Airport Byelaws.
  Members of the APS are defined as "competent persons" employed by a Public Authority under Section 18 of Criminal Justice Act 2006 for the purpose of taking & receiving witness statements in the course of their duties.
  Under Section 33 of the Air Navigation and Transport Act 1988 (as amended by the Air Navigation and Transport Act 1998), they can arrest persons in connection with offences under that Act or certain other legislation provided such persons are handed over to Gardai as soon as possible. It is an offence to obstruct, impede, assault or impersonate an Authorised Officer (Each warranted member of the police service is classed as an Authorised Officer under law.)
  Each year, Officers of the force effect several hundred arrests for a wide variety of offences, including assault, theft, fraud and breach of the public order. Members of the Airport Police are required to transfer custody of their prisoners over to the Garda Síochána for investigation and if warranted, to be prosecuted by the Director of Public Prosecutions.
  Offences committed under the Airports Byelaws detected by the Airport Police can be dealt with by way of reporting for summons to the District court to initiate a prosecution on behalf of the Airport Authority, or by the issue of a fixed penalty notice.
caption: A Dublin Airport Police Isuzu
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