(1) The State Counsel shall direct and control the operations of the officers and agents of the judicial police.
(2) He may, at anytime, visit the police post or the gendarmerie brigade in order to verify the conditions of persons in custody provided for in section 124 (3). In the course of such control, the persons whose release he orders of his own motion or by virtue of an order of habeas corpus, must immediately be set free, under pain of prosecution for unlawful detention against the judicial police officers in charge of the police post or gendarmerie brigade where the custody takes place.
(3) The State Counsel may, at any time and place act as a judicial police officer
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In force from 27-07-2005
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