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

(1) Judicial police officers and agents shall carry out investigations either on their own initiativeor on the instructions of the State Counsel.(2) The originals of the Police case files shall be forwarded to the State Counsel without delay.(3) As soon as investigations are opened, the judicial police officer shall, under the penalty ofnullity, inform the suspect of:- his right to counsel;- his right to remain silent(4) Mention of this information shall be made in the report.Section 117:(1) Judicial police officers shall conducting investigations have the powers provided for undersections 83 to 93,95,97,99.101,102,104,110,114, 15 and 116.(2) At the close of the investigations, the suspect who has no known residence or who cannotfulfil any of the conditions referred to in section 246 (g) shall be arrested and taken before theState Counsel if there is strong corroborative evidence against him.A suspect who has a known residence or who fulfils one of the conditions provided for in section246 (g) shall be released on bail.SUB-CHAPTER IVPOLICE CUSTODYSection 118:(1) Police custody shall be a measure whereby, for purposes of criminal investigation and theestablishment of the truth, a suspect is detained in a judicial police cell, wherein he remains for alimited period available to and under the responsibility of a judicial police officer.(2) Except in case of a felony or a misdemeanour committed flagrante delicto, and unless strongcorroborative evidence exists against mm, a person with a known place of abode may not beremanded in police custody.(3) Save in the cases provided for in sub-sections (1) and (2) above, no person may be remanded