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30.   Arrest with or without process for crime

Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2022)

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30.   Arrest with or without process for crime

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    (1)   A person may—

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      (a)     with or without warrant or other legal process, arrest and detain another person whom he or she knows to have committed an indictable offence;

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      (b)     if the other person, having notice or knowing that he or she is accused of an indictable offence, avoids arrest by resistance or flight or escapes or endeavours to escape from custody,

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    use any force which is necessary for the arrest, detention or recapture, and may kill that other person if that other person cannot otherwise be arrested, detained, or retaken by any other means.

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    (2)   A person duly authorised by warrant or other legal process to arrest or detain a person for committing an indictable offence may, if that other person has notice or believes that such warrant or other legal process is in force against him or her, may use such force as is reasonable for his or her arrest, detention, or recapture, and may kill that other person if that other person cannot otherwise be arrested, detained, or retaken by any other means even though the offence was not committed by the other person, or no such offence has in fact been committed.

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