Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2022)

32.   Bona fide assistant and correctional officer

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    (1)   Where a person, who is duly authorised to execute a warrant to arrest, arrests a person whom he or she believes in good faith and on reasonable and probable grounds is the person named in the warrant, he or she shall be protected from criminal responsibility to the same extent and subject to the same provisions of this Code, as if the person arrested is the person named in the warrant.

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    (2)   If a person who is called upon to assist in an arrest under subsection (1) believes that the person whose arrest he or she is called upon to assist is the person in respect of whom the warrant was issued, he or she and the correctional officer who is required to receive and detain the person, shall be protected to the same extent and subject to the same provisions of this Code, as if the person arrested is the person named in the warrant.