A private Legal Practitioner Daniel Korang says it wrong for a complainant to dictate to the police the punishment to be meted out to a suspect.
According to him, most complainants tend to dictate to the police what should be done to the suspect which they do not have right to.
“When a complainant makes a complain to the police, they cannot dictate the base to the police,” he said.
Speaking on the ten things the police must not do suspect on Joy News’ The Law on Sunday, he said the police must not give in to the demands of complainant.
Describing the situation as unfortunate he said “sometimes the complainant tell 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 arrests an individual who must be arraigned before court, the service must first present a charge sheet few days before court proceedings commence.
“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 document they will present before the court,” he told host Samson.
Touching on other issues Mr Korang stressed that the police cannot keep a suspect beyond 48 hours.
He added that in recent times he noticed the police picked suspects up on Fridays and used the weekend as an excuse to detain individuals for more hours than necessary.
The legal practitioner explained that “48 hours run during the weekends” thus the police argument that bail cannot be granted during that period was wrong.
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