Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2022)

653.   Conduct of police prosecutions

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    (1)   A Superintendent of Police may conduct the prosecution of any police charge in any district.

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    (2)   Where a police officer lays an information or a complaint—

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      (a)     the officer, or senior officer, in charge of an out-district station; or

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      (b)     any police officer in Castries or in any out-district station not below the rank of corporal,

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    may conduct the prosecution.

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    (3)   If, for any reason, the person appointed to conduct the prosecution before any Court is absent or unable to act, or where no person has been appointed, the magistrate of the district in which the Court is held may appoint or allow a fit and proper person to prosecute such cases as are tried before the Court.