Compliant cannot dictate bail conditions of a suspect to the police officer – Daniel Korang
A private Legal Practitioner Daniel Korang says it wrong for a compliant to dictate to the police the punishment to be meted to should treat a suspect.
According to him, most complaint tend to dictate to the police what should be done to the suspect which they do not have rights to.
“When a complaint makes a complain to the police, they cannot dictate the base for the police,” he said.
Speaking on Joy New’s the law on Sunday on ten things the police must not do suspect, he said the police must not give in to the demands of complaint, whether to deny suspects bail or maltreat them.
Describing the situation as unfortunate he said “sometimes the complaint tells the police to beat up the suspect or deny the suspect bail so that when a lawyer goes to the police station to secure bail for her client, he is told that we are trying to convince the complainant to understand and to agree that we grant bail but he is not agreeing.”
Throwing more light on this, he mentioned that when police arrest an individual whom they believe must be arraigned before court the police must first present a charge sheet days before court proceedings.
“The acceptable practice is that when police feel an accused person must be arraigned, he must first give the person adequate notice so they can prepare in addition serve the now accused person with every relevant documents they will present before the court on the first day,” he told host Samson.
Mr Korang added that the police cannot keep a suspect beyond 48 hours.
He mentioned that he saw the police violate this by picking up a suspect on Friday and say weekends are excluded from the 48 hours rule
However, the legal practitioner holding a different view thus the “ 48 hours run during weekends.”
When a person is arrested, he said the police must to detain the person unnecessarily, unless detention of which he advised that it must not exceed 48 hours.
Source: Ghana News
