Section 69 Nigeria Police Act

Section 69 of the Nigeria Police Act 2020 is about Police to report to supervising magistrates. It is under Part VII (Powers of Police Officers) of the Act. It provides as follows:

(1) An officer in charge of a police station or an official in charge of an agency authorised to make arrest shall, on the last working day of every month, report to the nearest magistrate the cases of all suspects arrested without warrant within the limits of their respective stations or agency whether the suspects have been admitted to bail or not.

(2) The rep011 shall contain the particulars of the suspects arrested as prescribed under section 44 of this Act.

(3) The magistrate shall, on receipt of the reports, forward them to the Criminal Justice Monitoring Committee which shall analyse the reports and advise the Attorney-General of the Federation as to the trends of arrests, bail and related matters.

(4) The Attorney-General of the Federation shall, upon request by the National Human Rights Commission, the Legal Aid Council of Nigeria or a non-governmental organisation, make the report available to them.

(5) Where no report is made in accordance with subsection (1), the magistrate shall forward a report to the Chief Judge of the State and the Attorney-General of the State for appropriate remedial action.

(6) With respect to the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, the report referred to in subsection (5) shall be forwarded to the Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and the Attorney-General of the Federation for remedial action.