Any officer or agent of the judicial police may, in a public place or a place open to
the public, and subject to the provisions of section 83 (3), arrest the author of a simple offence
who either refuses to disclose his identity or discloses an identity suspected to be false and,
where necessary, detain him for not longer than twenty-four (24) hours.
Courtesy of the Cameroon Center for Demoncracy and Human Rights – CCDHR: www.ccdhr.org
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In force from 27 July 2005
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