SECTION 104

(1) (a) A judicial police officer informed of a felony committed flagrante delicto shall immediately inform the State Counsel of it. (b) Any notice whether given by telephone or other oral communication shall be confirmed in writing. Within forty eight hours of the oral message. (c) Mention of these measures shall be made in the report. (2) The judicial police officer shall without delay visit the place where the felony was committed and shall take all necessary steps particularly: (a) to prevent any person likely to supply useful information from leaving the lace without his permission, subject to the punishment provided in the Penal Code for defaulting witness. He may not, under pain of prosecution for false arrest detain such person for more than 12 hours; (b) to, where necessary, remand in police custody any suspected person; (c) to ensure the preservation of evidence that may be used for the discovery of the truth; (d) to seize any articles or documents used in committing, or which appear to be the product of the felony; (e) to, in case of urgency, carry out his duties outside his territorial jurisdiction in accordance with section 88 (2); Courtesy of the Cameroon Center for Demoncracy and Human Rights – CCDHR: www.ccdhr.org 27 (f) to conduct searches in the houses of persons suspected of either keeping documents or articles relating to the particulars of the offence or of having participated in the commission of the felony.