Section 40, The Sierra Leone Correctional Service Act, 2014

(1) An inmate who is being removed or transferred fromone correctional centre to another or to any other place shall, while outside the correctional centre, be kept in the custody of the corrections officer or police officer authorised under this Act or any other enactment to remove or convey the inmate and shall, subject to this Act or any other enactment, be deemed to be in lawful custody of the officer in charge of the correctional centre from which that inmate is being removed or transferred. (2) Inmates on remand or committed for trial, who are required to attend any court, may be taken for that purpose into police custody at the correctional centre to which they have been committed and shall remain under police supervision and guard until they are returned to the correctional centre or discharged by the court. (3) Where on the removal of an inmate from any correctional centre the number of corrections officers is insufficient to provide escort for that inmate, the officer in charge of the correctional centre from which the inmate is to be removed may, with the general or special permission of the Inspector-General of Police, deliver the inmate to any police officer detailed for that duty. (4) While an inmate is in the custody of a police officer in accordance with this Act the inmate shall be deemed to be in lawful custody, and escape from the custody of the police officer shall be deemed to be escape from lawful custody for the purposes of any enactment. (5) A police officer to whom an inmate is delivered under subsection (3) shall have the same powers and be subject to the same responsibilities, discipline and penalties and to the same authorities as a corrections officer would have been and be subject to in like circumstances.