POLICE INVITATION

[Olajire Deborah]

The topic for this week is a continuation of last week’s topic: KNOW YOUR RIGHT AGAINST THE POLICE. But for today, we will be centering on: POLICE INVITATION.

POLICE INVITATION
Please note firstly that it is your duty as a responsible citizen to respond to Police invitations. Where a Policeman arrests or invites you to their station, you are advised to follow them, or at worst promise to report at the earliest possible time if allowed. Note that the Police have the power to forcefully take a suspect to their stations where he appears to be resisting arrest, or where he had failed to honor previous invitations.
Note again that resisting police arrest or assaulting a policeman in the course of an arrest is an offence on his own.

NOTE:
1) A person arrested for a crime is entitled to be informed promptly of what are the allegations against him.
2) A suspect is entitled not to make any statement or answer any question until he sees his lawyer or any person of his choice.
3) A suspect is entitled to write his statement himself, so long as he knows how to write, and he is entitled to answer any question in any manner he thinks best to him.
4) You cannot be arrested for the offence of another, no matter how close that person is to you.
5) A suspect cannot be tortured in order to force him to make confessional statements or any statement to implicate himself or any other person.
6) A suspect is entitled to make his statement or defense without duress, harassment or torture.
7) The role of the Police is to investigate any alleged crime, and it is not for them to declare either the suspect or complainant guilty. It is also beyond the Police to punish an offender for the crime. That is the job of the law court.
8) The Police have no right to force either the complainant or suspect to settle or to force any of them to make undertakings towards settlement.

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