The Police Officer can intervene and prevent any person from being committing cognizable offence.

Any Subordinate Police Officer who has acquainted with certain information of committing a cognizable offence shall immediately report to his Superior Officer or to the Officer concerned who is responsible to prevent such offence.

A Police Officer, who has come to know of a plan to commit a Cognizable Offence may arrest such person so plans, without any Warrant of Arrest from the concerned Magistrate provided he has reason to believe that such things cannot be prevented without an arrest.

Such arrested person should not be kept under custody for more than 24 hours unless such custody is authorised by the law under any of the provisions of the Code.       

The Police Officer on his own can intervene and prevent any damages or removal from being committing to any public property; movable or immovable including any public landmark or other things. Any Officer Incharge of a Police Station, may without a Warrant can enter into any shops functioning in his Station limit, based on the information he gathered, inspect weights or measures or instruments meant for weighing and if they are found to be false, he can seize the same and report to the Jurisdiction Magistrate.