Criminal Procedure Code 37 When police or penghulu may arrest without warrant 23. (1) Any police officer or penghulu may without an order from a Magistrate and without a warrant arrest— (a) any person who has been concerned in any offence committed anywhere in Malaysia which is a seizable offence under any law in force in that part of Malaysia in which it was committed or against whom a reasonable complaint has been made or credible information has been received or a reasonable suspicion exists of his having been so concerned; (b) any person having in his possession without lawful excuse, the burden of proving which excuse shall lie on such person, any implement of housebreaking; (c) any person who has been proclaimed under section 44; (d) any person in whose possession anything is found which may reasonably be suspected to be stolen or fraudulently obtained property and who may reasonably be suspected of having committed an offence with reference to that thing; (e) any person who obstructs a police officer while in the execution of his duty or who has escaped or attempts to escape from lawful custody; (f) any person reasonably suspected of being a deserter from the Armed Forces of Malaysia; (g) any person found taking precautions to conceal his presence under circumstances which afford reason to believe that he is taking those precautions with a view to committing a seizable offence; (h) any person who has no ostensible means of subsistence or who cannot give a satisfactory account of himself; (i) any person who is by repute a habitual robber, housebreaker or thief or a habitual receiver of stolen property knowing it to be stolen or who by repute habitually commits extortion or in order to commit extortion habitually puts or attempts to put persons in fear of injury;