{"id":1886,"date":"2013-12-10T13:20:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T18:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bfc.emblemedev.ca\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2024-06-10T16:07:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T20:07:43","slug":"requirements-stopping-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bf-contravention.com\/en\/blog\/requirements-stopping-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Requirements for stopping a driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under the <em>Highway Safety Code of Quebec<\/em>, it is permitted and legal for a police officer to stop the driver of a vehicle who, at first sight, has committed no offence. An officer can ask a driver to pull over to check their driver&#8217;s licence, registration and proof of insurance, to verify that the vehicle is mechanically fit, or simply to verify that the driver is not impaired when certain conditions are met.<\/p>\n<p>However, four conditions must be met in before the peace officer can stop a vehicle legally:<\/p>\n<p>1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The peace officer must be recognizable as such (uniform, etc.);<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The peace officer can only stop a vehicle while on duty;<\/p>\n<p>3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Only a road vehicle can be pulled over;<\/p>\n<p>4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The vehicle must be circulating on a public road.<\/p>\n<p>Do not hesitate to call us if criminal charges are laid against you after being pulled over by a police officer. We can assess the lawfulness of the intervention and possibly contest it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the Highway Safety Code of Quebec, it is permitted and legal for a police officer to stop the driver of a vehicle who, at first sight, has committed no offence. An officer can ask a driver to pull over to check their driver&#8217;s licence, registration and proof of insurance, to verify that the vehicle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bf-contravention.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bf-contravention.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bf-contravention.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bf-contravention.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bf-contravention.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bf-contravention.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2168,"href":"https:\/\/bf-contravention.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions\/2168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bf-contravention.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bf-contravention.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bf-contravention.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}