PART II—GENERAL PROVISIONS.
Arrest, escape and retaking.
10. Arrest without warrant.
Any police officer may, without an order from a magistrate and without a warrant, arrest—
(a) any person whom he or she suspects upon reasonable grounds of having committed a cognisable offence, an offence under any of the provisions of Chapter XVI of the Penal Code Act or any offence for which under any law provision is made for arrest without warrant;
(b) any person who commits a breach of the peace in his or her presence;
(c) any person who obstructs a police officer while in the execution of his or her duty, or who has escaped or attempts to escape from lawful custody;
(d) any person whom he or she suspects upon reasonable grounds of being a deserter from the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces;
(e) any person whom he or she finds in any highway, yard or other place during the night and whom he or she suspects upon reasonable grounds of having committed or being about to commit a felony;
(f) any person whom he or she suspects upon reasonable grounds of having been concerned in any act committed at any place out of Uganda which, if committed in Uganda, would have been punishable as an offence, and for which he or she is, under the provisions of any written law, liable to be apprehended and detained in Uganda;
(g) any person having in his or her possession without lawful excuse, the burden of proving which excuse shall lie on that person, any implement of housebreaking;
(h) any person for whom he or she has reasonable cause to believe a warrant of arrest has been issued;
(i) any person in whose possession anything is found which may reasonably be suspected to be stolen property or who may reasonably be suspected of having committed an offence with reference to that thing.
11. Arrest of vagabonds, habitual robbers, etc.
Any officer in charge of a police station may in like manner arrest or cause to be arrested—
(a) any person found taking precautions to conceal his or her presence within the limits of that station under circumstances which afford reason to believe that he or she is taking the precautions with a view to committing a cognisable offence;
(b) any person within the limits of that station who has no ostensible means of subsistence or who cannot give a satisfactory account of himself or herself;
(c) any person who is by repute an habitual robber, housebreaker or thief, or an habitual receiver of stolen property knowing it to be stolen, or who by repute habitually commits extortion or in order to commit extortion habitually puts or attempts to put persons in fear of injury.
12. Procedure when police officer deputes subordinate to arrest without warrant.
When any officer in charge of a police station requires any officer subordinate to him or her to arrest without a warrant (otherwise than in his or her presence) any person who may lawfully be arrested without a warrant, he or she shall deliver to the officer required to make the arrest an order in writing specifying the person to be arrested and the offence or other cause for which the arrest is to be made.
Provisional arrest
Provisional arrest for national proceedings
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