Country: Uganda

What are the legal safeguards for police custody?

Depending on the type of custody (with or without a warrant of arrest)
Which authority is competent to place someone in police custody?

– Magistrate – Police officer
On what grounds and when can someone be placed in custody?

To conduct an inquiry and a police interrogation
What is police custody under Ugandan law?

Confinement of an arrested person in the police station for processing
Which authority is competent to make an administrative arrest?

– Magistrate – Police officer
On what grounds and when can someone be arrested (administrative arrest)?

– To keep peace – As preventive action
Is there a form of administrative arrest?

Yes
On what grounds and when can someone be arrested (judicial arrest)?

In execution of an order of a court or upon reasonable suspicion to have committed an offence
Which authority is competent to make a judicial arrest?

– Magistrate – Police officer – Officer in charge of a police station – Private person
What is a judicial arrest under Ugandan law?

Act of apprehending a person in response to an alleged commission of an offence