Cameroon Criminal Procedure Code 2005 - On TRACK against ...

mentioned in section 80 above by virtue of their special knowledge.Section 85: A non-military judicial police officer may investigate offences provided for in theprovisions of the Military Justice Court when no military judicial police officer is available.In such a case, he shall forward the case-file to the Ministry in charge of Military Justice.Section 86:(1) Judicial police officers shall be empowered to check the identity and situation of anysuspected person, in accordance with the provisions of section 32, and where necessary, maydetain him in a special police custody for not longer than 24 hours.(2) Upon the expiry of this period, the person so detained shall be released, unless the detentionis justified on some other legal ground otherwise the judicial police officer may be prosecutedunder the provisions of section 291 of the Penal Code.Section 87:(1) A judicial police officer may, whether in a public place or a place open to the public, searchor cause to bebe assisted by a judicial police officer serving within the area into which he has entered.(b) The State Counsel of the area shall be informed of these operations by the State Counsel ofthe jurisdiction which ordered the commission.Section 89:(1) The judicial police officer shall without delay inform the State Counsel of the offences ofwhich he has knowledge.