Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

15.   Offences by correctional officers, etc.

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    (1)   Any correctional officer or medical personnel who—

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      (a)     has, either directly or indirectly, any pecuniary interest whatsoever in, or derives any benefit or advantage from, the sale or purchase of any correctional facility supplies or of any article for the use of any inmate or of any correctional facility; or

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      (b)     has any dealings where he or she obtains or might expect to obtain at any time either immediately or in the future, any benefit of any nature whatsoever, with any inmate or with any person on behalf of any inmate; or

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      (c)     without lawful authority-

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        (i)     knowingly supplies, attempts to supply or allows to be supplied to any inmate any prohibited articles, or

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        (ii)     knowingly takes or allows to be taken out of any correctional facility any prohibited article; or

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      (d)     assaults, threatens or insults or uses violence against any other correctional officer or medical personnel when such member is on duty;

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      (e)     uses obscene, abusive or insulting language to any other correctional officer or medical personnel;

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      (f)     willfully or negligently makes any false complaint or statement against any other correctional officer or medical personnel;

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      (g)     fails, when knowing where an escapee can be found, to report the same;

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      (h)     fails to account for or make prompt and true return of any money or property seized, found or received by him or her in his or her official capacity or during the course of his or her duty;

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      (i)     wilfully or negligently fails to report any information or incident known to him or her which may jeopardise the security of the correctional facility or otherwise compromise its proper functioning;

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      (j)     improperly uses his or her position as a correctional officer or medical personnel for his or her private advantage,

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    commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to incarceration for a term not exceeding 2 years.

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    (2)   For purposes of this section, medical personnel shall include a nurse appointed under section 8(2).