In Italy the law requires police officers to arrest and incarcerate a person that is caught committing a crime or immediately after the crime has been committed. Depending on the crime some of the sentences may include 5 to 20 years in prison or life imprisonment. Police officers can also arrest those who have committed a crime against the state, ransacking, crimes against public safety, slavery, aggravated theft, robbery, extortion, illegal manufacturing, smuggling, selling, possessing, or carrying an illegal weapon in public (Crime and Society). If the police catch someone in the act they have a facultative power to arrest and incarcerate a suspect. Facultative arrest powers are also in force involving other crimes such as embezzlement of
