Section 44, The Sierra Leone Correctional Service Act, 2014

(1) Inmates on remand or committed for trial, who arerequired 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 returned to the correctional centre or discharged by the court. (2) Where on the removal of an inmate from a 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. (3) 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 purposes of any enactment.