KNOW YOUR LAWS

Know Your Laws” is a production of the Press Office of the Royal Saint Lucia Police Force.

HARBOURING OR AIDING CRIMINAL

(CRIMINAL CODE OF SAINT LUCIA 2008)

402. A person who knowing or having reason to believe that another person has committed or has been convicted of any crime, aids, conceals, or harbours that person, with the intention of enabling him or her to avoid lawful arrest or the execution of his or her sentence, or to escape punishment, is liable—

(a)        if the crime is punishable with death or with imprisonment for 14 years or more, to imprisonment for 7 years, on conviction on indictment;

(b)        if the crime is an indictable offence other than that referred to in paragraph (a), to imprisonment for 5 years, on conviction on indictment;

(c)        if the crime is a summary offence, to a fine of $1,000 on summary conviction unless the Court is of opinion that in the circumstances there should be no conviction or punishment owing to the trivial nature of the offence or other sufficient reason.

PHYSICAL RESTRAINTS

(CRIMINAL CODE OF SAINT LUCIA 2008)

587. It is lawful for a police officer or correctional officer to put on a person arrested, whether with or without a warrant, physical restraints, whether by hand cuffs, leg-restraints or other means—

(a)        whenever such person is being moved from a place of confinement to Court or from Court to a place of confinement;

(b)        whenever such person is being moved from one place of confinement to another, if there exists a reasonable apprehension of violence or of attempts to escape or by order of the Court.

“We, the Royal Saint Lucia Police Force would like to encourage the citizenry to read and study the laws which governs our society. Never forget that knowledge is power”.

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