180_122 interference 122. The Court takes note of the argument submitted by some of the applicants that there had been nothing to prevent the police from compiling the administrative offence record on the spot, without escorting them to the police stations, and that the cases had not constituted “exceptional circumstances”, which were required for an administrative arrest to be lawful. The Court prefers to take up the relevant factual and legal issues in the proportionality analysis below. (γ) Prosecution for an administrative offence