sri lanka's commissions of inquiry - Law & Society Trust
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ARREST AND DETENTION<br />
CATEGORY<br />
OF REC<br />
Arrest<br />
RECOMMENDATION<br />
(AS STATED IN REPORT)<br />
CoI &<br />
REPORT<br />
Record <strong>of</strong> arrests, detentions, and transfer to be maintained Southern, Final<br />
simultaneously with the event. IV.1<br />
(173)<br />
2. Duty to inform -<br />
Southern, Final<br />
(i) The nearest police station to be immediately informed. 151 (173)<br />
(ii) Weekly list to be submitted to the District Secretary by<br />
arresting authority with particulars. 152<br />
(iii) The magistrate to be informed <strong>of</strong> the arrest within 24<br />
hours. 153<br />
(iv) Magistrate to be informed <strong>of</strong> any change in the place <strong>of</strong><br />
custody including any transfer out <strong>of</strong> the Magistrate’s jurisdiction<br />
or <strong>of</strong> a release from custody. 154<br />
YEAR<br />
1997<br />
1997<br />
151.<br />
(i) In terms <strong>of</strong> those arrested by an order <strong>of</strong> the Defence Secretary (Regulation 19 <strong>of</strong> the 2005 Emergency (Miscellaneous Provisions and Powers)<br />
Regulations as amended [“ER 2005”], i.e Preventive Detention) there is no express requirement for the arresting <strong>of</strong>ficer to bring the arrest to<br />
the notice <strong>of</strong> the nearest police station. However such persons may not be detained for more than three months and must be produced before a<br />
Magistrate not later than thirty days after such arrest (Reg.21(1) ER 2005), [ER 2010]. Though certain changes were effected by Amendment<br />
Regulation <strong>of</strong> August 5 th 2008, these changes were done away with by Amendment Regulation <strong>of</strong> May 2 nd 2010. In terms <strong>of</strong> arrests under<br />
Regulation 20, (i.e authorization by the President to search/detain/arrest without warrant any person who is committing, have committed or<br />
suspected to be concerned in an <strong>of</strong>fence under the Emergency Regulations), paragraph 2 lays down that a person has to be handed over to the<br />
nearest police station within 24 hours. In addition Regulation 20(8) <strong>of</strong> ER 2005 imposes a duty on an arresting police <strong>of</strong>ficer to report the arrest to<br />
the Superintendent <strong>of</strong> Police <strong>of</strong> the Division or where the arresting <strong>of</strong>ficer is a member <strong>of</strong> the armed forces, to report the arrest to the Commanding<br />
Officer in the area within which the arrest was made, within twenty four hours <strong>of</strong> the arrest. Observance <strong>of</strong> these safeguards in practise are in<br />
doubt.<br />
152.<br />
No provision in emergency law.<br />
153.<br />
In terms <strong>of</strong> arrests under Regulation 20, there is no requirement to be brought before a magistrate. In terms <strong>of</strong> Regulation 19, the detainee<br />
must be produced before a Magistrate within thirty days <strong>of</strong> the arrest. [ER 2005, Regulation 21(1)] Amendment Regulation <strong>of</strong> May 2nd 2010<br />
brought in a new requirement <strong>of</strong> notification <strong>of</strong> arrests to a Magistrate within seventy two hours.<br />
154.<br />
No provision in emergency law.<br />
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