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

comments by the press. Any violation of this provision shall be punished under sections 169 and170 of the Penal Code.Sub-chapter IIFelonies and misdemeanours committed flagrante deIictoSection 103:(1) Felonies and misdemeanours are deemed to be committed flagrante delicto when they are inthe course of being committed or when they have just been committed.(2) Shall also be classified as felonies or misdemeanours committed flagrante delicto when:(a) after the commission of the offence, the suspect is pursued by public clamour;(b) soon after the commission of the offence, the suspect is caught in possession of an article orshows a sign or trace which tends to suggest that he took part in the commission of the felony ormisdemeanour.(3) There shall equally be flagrante delicto where a person requests the State Counsel or ajudicial police officer to investigate a felony or misdemeanour committed in a house, which heoccupies, or over which he has charge.Section 104:(1)(a) A judicial police officer informed of a felony committed flagrante delicto shall immediatelyinform the State Counsel of it.(b) Any notice whether given by telephone or other oral communication shall be confirmed inwriting. Within forty eight hours of the oral message.(c) Mention of these measures shall be made in the report.(2) The judicial police officer shall without delay visit the place where the felony was committedand shall take all necessary steps particularly:(a) to prevent any person likely to supply useful information from leaving the lace without hispermission, subject to the punishment provided in the Penal Code for defaulting witness. He may