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Section 13: When constable may arrest without warrant.
RepealedTHE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACTS, 1965, Sierra Leone
(1) Any constable may without a warrant arrest –a. any person who commits any offence involving violence or dishonesty in his presence;
b. any person whom any other person positively accuses of having committed any felony or any larceny,
embezzlement, false pretences or receiving;
c. any person whom any other person suspects of having committed any felony or any misdemeanour
mentioned in paragraph (b), if the suspicion of such other person appears to the constable to be well founded
and he shall declare his name and place of residence to the constable and accompany the latter to the nearest
police station or lock up, if required to do so;
d. any person whom he has reasonable cause to suspect of having committed or being about to commit any
felony;
e. any person whom he finds between the hours of six in the evening and six in the morning lying or loitering
in any street, highway, yard, compound or other place, and not giving a satisfactory account of himself;
f. any loose, idle or disorderly person whom he finds in any way disturbing the peace, whether in a public or
private place, or causing annoyance to any person.
(2) Nothing in this section shall in any way effect or derogate from any other powers conferred on constables by this
or any other Act.
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