[2] A range of state officials may apply to the NSW courts to create an SCPO consisting of conditions deemed appropriate,[3] such as an obligation to report to a police station and prohibitions on travelling beyond a certain region.
[5] In Costa Rica, the 1998 Criminal Proceedings Code allows for a pre-trial remand of 12 months if the person is considered a "flight risk".
[13] In 2023 27 supporters of Last Generation (climate movement) were preemptively imprisoned after the group announced protests of the International Motor Show Germany.
[16] The controversial Maintenance of Internal Security Act was originally enacted by the Indian parliament early during Indira Gandhi's prime ministership in 1971.
[19] The National Security Act along with other laws allowing preventive detention have come under wide criticism for their alleged misuse.
The length of detention, up to the maximum period, is at the discretion of the public prosecutor and subject to the approval of local courts.
The ISA allowed for detention without trial or criminal charges under limited, legally defined circumstances.
On 15 September 2011, Najib Razak, the then Prime Minister of Malaysia, said that this legislation would be repealed and replaced by two new laws.
[22] On 17 April 2012, the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (SOSMA) was approved by the Malaysian Parliament as a replacement for the ISA.
[27] In Singapore, preventive detention is a special type of imprisonment reserved for recalcitrant offenders at least 30 years old with at least three previous convictions since turning 16.
[28] For example, in 2004, Chong Keng Chye was sentenced to 20 years of preventive detention for abusing a child to death and for various cheating offences.
These included, notably, the Terrorism Act of 1967, which gave police commanders the power to detain terrorists—or people with information about terrorists—without warrant.
[36] Section 1021 and 1022 of the legislation enacted policies described by The Guardian as allowing indefinite detention "without trial [of] American terrorism suspects arrested on U.S. soil who could then be shipped to Guantánamo Bay".