Section 47 Nigeria Police Act

Section 47 of the Nigeria Police Act 2020 is about Quarterly report of arrests to the Attorney-General. It is under Part VII (Powers of Police Officers) of the Act. It provides as follows:

(1) The Inspector-General of Police and head of every agency authorised by law to make arrests shall remit quarterly to the Attorney-General of the Federation a record of all arrests made with or without warrant in relation to Federal offences within Nigeria.

(2) The Commissioner of Police of a State and the head of every agency authorised by law to make arrest within a State shall remit quarterly to the
Attorney-General of that State a record of all arrests made with or without
warrant in relation to State offences or arrests within the State.

(3) The report shall contain the full particulars of arrested suspects as prescribed under section 44 of this Act

(4) A register of arrests containing the particulars prescribed under section 44 of this Act shall be kept in the prescribed form at every police station or agency authorised by law to make arrests, and every arrest, whether made with or without warrant, within the local limits of the police station or agency, or within the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, shall be entered accordingly by the officer in charge of the police station or officer in charge of the agency as soon as the arrested suspect is brought to the station or agency.

(5) The Attorney-General of the Federation shall establish an electronic and manual database of all records of arrests at the Federal and State level