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

Section 136: Failure to comply with the provisions of subsections 2, 3, 4, and 5 of the precedingsection shall be publishable under section 171 of the Penal Code.Section 137:(1) The State Counsel shall direct and control the operations of the officers and agents of thejudicial police.(2) He may, at anytime, visit the police post or the gendarmerie brigade in order to verify theconditions of persons in custody provided for in section 124 (3). In the course of such control,the persons whose release he orders of his own motion or by virtue of an order of habeas corpus,must immediately be set free, under pain of prosecution for unlawful detention against thejudicial police officers in charge of the police post or gendarmerie brigade where the custodytakes place.(3) The State Counsel may, at any time and place act as a judicial police officerSection 138:(1) The State Counsel shall, in the exercise of his duties, have the right to directly request the useof the forces of law and order.(2)(a) he may, in order to accomplish his duties, also request the assistance of any person who islikely to help in the discovery of the truth.(b) the person so requested shall receive an allowance as provided for by the regulations in force.Section 139: The original of case files concerning offences committed within his jurisdiction andtriable by the ordinary law courts, shall be sent to the State Counsel.Section 140:(1) the competent State Counsel shall be either: