Section 6 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 6 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Inventory of property of arrested person. It provides as follows:

(1) A Police Officer or Law Enforcement Officer making an arrest or to whom an
arrested person is handed over to by a private person, shall record and sign an
inventory of the particulars of all items/properties recovered from the arrested person.

(2) The person arrested or the legal representative or such other person as
the person arrested may direct, shall be given a copy of the inventory.

(3) Where an item property has been taken under this section from a person
arrested, a Police Officer may. upon request by either the owner of the
item/property or parties having interest in the item property release such
item/property on bond pending the arraignment of the person arrested before a court.

(4) Where a Police Officer refuses to release the item property to the owner or
any person having in the item/property under subsection (3) of this section, the Police Officer shall make a report to he court stating the particulars and the reason(s) for the refusal.

(5) The court to which a repost is made under subsection (4) of this section, may direct that the property or such part of it be released to the owner or to such person(s) having interest in the item property ** on such terms as it considers necessary to impose.

(6) Where an item property has been taken from a person arrested under this section, section, and the person arrested is not charged before a court but is released on the ground that there is no sufficient reason to believe that the arrested person has committed an offence, any item/property so taken from the person shall be returned without prejudice to any other law in connection with dealings in proceeds of crime generally.

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