Section 31, The Sierra Leone Correctional Service Act, 2014

(1) Where in any correctional centre the number ofcorrectional officers detailed for duty is insufficient to secure the good management and administration of the centre it shall be lawful for the officer in charge of such correctional centre, with the consent of the Inspector-General of Police to employ temporarily such number of police officers as the officer in charge considers necessary to secure the good management and administration of the correctional centre. (2) Every police officer appointed in pursuance of subsection (1) shall have all the powers and perform in such correctional centre all the duties of a corrections officer of the rank to which the officer in charge shall appoint him and, for the purposes of this Act, shall be deemed to be a corrections officer of that rank; but no police officer shall by reason of this section be a member of the Service. (3) Where on the removal of any inmate from any correctional centre the staff is insufficient to provide escort for such inmate it shall be lawful for the officer in charge of the correctional centre from which the inmate is to be removed, to deliver the inmate to any police officer who may be detailed for such duty.