Country: Oeganda
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What is the legal duration of police custody?
48 hours maximum
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What are the legal safeguards for police custody?
Depending on the type of custody (with or without a warrant of arrest)
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Which authority is competent to place someone in police custody?
– Magistrate – Police officer
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On what grounds and when can someone be placed in custody?
To conduct an inquiry and a police interrogation
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What is police custody under Ugandan law?
Confinement of an arrested person in the police station for processing
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Which authority is competent to make an administrative arrest?
– Magistrate – Police officer
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On what grounds and when can someone be arrested (administrative arrest)?
– To keep peace – As preventive action
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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
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Which authority is competent to make a judicial arrest?
– Magistrate – Police officer – Officer in charge of a police station – Private person