Section 184, The Criminal Procedure Act, 2024

(1) The Court may, in any circumstances in which it haspower upon conviction to issue a warrant of commitment to a correctional centre in respect of the non-payment of a fine or penalty, in lieu of issuing a warrant of commitment to a correctional centre, issue a warrant of detention in a police station. (2) A warrant of detention in a police station issued under subsection (1) shall authorise - (a) the Police Officer holding the warrant, unless the sum mentioned in the warrant, with the amount of expenses authorised in it is sooner paid and a duly authorised receipt is issued for that purpose, to convey the person named in the warrant to an appropriate police station and for that purpose to arrest him; (b) the officer in charge of a police station to detain the person named in the warrant until 8 O'clock in the morning on the day following that on which the person named in the warrant is arrested under the warrant or, if he is so arrested between mid-night and 8 O'clock in the morning, on that day. (4) The officer in charge of the police station in which the person named in the warrant is detained under this section may discharge him at any time within 2 hours before 8 O'clock in the morning if the officer thinks it expedient to do so in order to enable the person detained to go to his employment or for any other reason appearing to the officer to be sufficient.