Law library · Sierra Leone · The Criminal Procedure Act, 2024
Section 30: A Police Officer may -
Status not yet checkedThe Criminal Procedure Act, 2024, Sierra Leone
(a) detain a person carrying or conveying along
a square, street, highway, quay, avenue or
other public place an animal, matter or thing
which -
(i) the Police Officer suspects of having
been stolen or otherwise unlawfully
obtained; or
(ii) in respect of which he suspects that a
criminal offence has been, is being or is
about to be committed; and
(b) examine a box, parcel, basket, bundle, or any
other package carried or conveyed by that
person which he may reasonably suspect to
contain an animal, matter or thing; and if that
person does not give a satisfactory account
of himself and of an animal, matter or thing
the examination may discover, arrest that
person and cause him to be taken before a
Court as soon as practicable to be dealt with
according to law.
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