Power to arrest under the Act permits delegated arrests for specified offences and mandates prompt production and bail safeguards. Section 26 empowers a proper officer not below Commissioner to authorise a subordinate to arrest persons believed to have committed offences specified in section 18(1)(a)-(d) or punishable under section 18(2). Arrests under section 19(5) require informing the person of grounds and producing them before a Magistrate within twenty four hours; such persons shall be admitted to bail or forwarded to Magistrate custody, and for non cognizable bailable offences an Assistant Commissioner has powers equivalent to an officer in charge of a police station.