Nevada Code § 412.272

Order of apprehension, arrest or confinement
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1. An enlisted member may be ordered into
arrest or confinement by any commissioned officer by an oral or written order,
delivered in person or through other persons subject to this Code or through any
person authorized by this Code to apprehend persons. A commanding officer may
authorize warrant officers or noncommissioned officers to order enlisted
members of his or her command or subject to his or her authority into arrest or
confinement.
2. A commissioned officer or warrant
officer may be ordered apprehended or into arrest or confinement only by a
commanding officer to whose authority he or she is subject, by an order, oral
or written, delivered in person or by another commissioned officer. The authority
to order such persons apprehended or into arrest or confinement may not be
delegated.
3. No person may be ordered apprehended or
into arrest or confinement except for probable cause.
4. This section does not limit the
authority of persons authorized to apprehend offenders to secure the custody of
an alleged offender until proper authority may be notified.

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