Section 14 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Sentences in cases of conviction of several offences at one trial

(1) Any court which passes a sentence of imprisonment for a term of not morethan two years for any offence may order that the sentence shall not take effect unless during the period specified by the...

(1) In making an arrest the police officer or other person making it shall actually touch or confine the body of the person to be arrested, unless there be a submission to custody by word or...

(1) If any person acting under a warrant of arrest, or any police officer having authority to arrest, has reason to believe that the person to be arrested has entered into or is within any place, the...

A police officer or other person authorized to make an arrest may break out of any house or place in order to liberate himself or any other person who, having lawfully entered for the purpose of...

The person arrested shall not be subjected to more restraint than is necessary to prevent his escape.

Whenever a person is arrested— (a) by a police officer under a warrant which does not provide for the taking of bail, or under a warrant which provides for the taking of bail but the person arrested...

(1) A police officer, or other person authorized in writing in that behalf by the Commissioner of Police, may stop, search and detain— (a) any aircraft, vessel or vehicle in or upon which there is...

Whenever it is necessary to cause a woman to be searched, the search shall be made by another woman with strict regard to decency.

The officer or other person making an arrest may take from the person arrested any offensive weapons which he has about his person, and shall deliver all weapons so taken to the court or officer...

A police officer may, without an order from a magistrate and without a warrant, arrest— (a) any person whom he suspects upon reasonable grounds of having committed a cognizable offence; (b) any...

An officer in charge of a police station may in the same manner arrest or cause to be arrested— (a) any person found taking precautions to conceal his presence within the limits of the station under...

When an officer in charge of a police station requires an officer subordinate to him to arrest without a warrant (otherwise than in his presence) any person who may lawfully be arrested without a...

(1) When a person who in the presence of a police officer has committed orhas been accused of committing a non-cognizable offence refuses on the demand of the officer to give his name and residence,...

A police officer making an arrest without a warrant shall, without unnecessary delay and subject to the provisions of this Code as to bail, take or send the person arrested before a magistrate having...

(1) A private person may arrest any person who in his view commits a cognizable offence, or whom he reasonably suspects of having committed a felony.  (2) Persons found committing an offence...

(1) A private person arresting another person without a warrant shall withoutunnecessary delay make over the person so arrested to a police officer, or in the absence of a police officer shall take...

When a person has been taken into custody without a warrant for an offence other than murder, treason, robbery with violence and attempted robbery with violence the officer in charge of the police...

(1) Pursuant to Article 49(1) (f) and (g) of the Constitution, a police officer shall present a person who has been arrested in court within twenty-four hours after being...

Officers in charge of police stations shall report to the nearest magistrate the cases of all persons arrested without warrant within the limits of their respective stations, whether those persons...

When an offence is committed in the presence of a magistrate within the local limits of his jurisdiction, he may himself arrest or order any person to arrest the offender, and may thereupon, subject...

A magistrate may at any time arrest or direct the arrest in his presence, within the local limits of his jurisdiction, of any person for whose arrest he is competent at the time and in the...

If a person in lawful custody escapes or is rescued, the person from whose custody he escapes or is rescued may immediately pursue and arrest him in any place in Kenya.

The provisions of sections 22 and 23 shall apply to arrests under section 40 although the person making the arrest is not acting under a warrant and is not a police officer having authority to...

Every person is bound to assist a magistrate or police officer reasonably demanding his aid— (a) in the taking or preventing the escape of another person whom the magistrate or police officer is...

(1) Pursuant to Article 50(2)(j) of the Constitution, the prosecution shall inform the accused person in advance of the evidence that the prosecution intends to rely on and ensure that the accused...

(1) Whenever a magistrate empowered to hold a subordinate court of the first-class is informed that a person is likely to commit a breach of the peace or disturb the public tranquillity, or to do any...

Whenever a magistrate empowered to hold a subordinate court of the first class is informed on oath that there is within the limits of his jurisdiction a person who, within or without those limits,...

Whenever a magistrate empowered to hold a subordinate court of the first class is informed on oath that a person is taking precautions to conceal his presence within the local limits of the...

Whenever a magistrate empowered to hold a subordinate court of the first class is informed on oath that a person within the local limits of his jurisdiction— (a) is by habit a robber, housebreaker or...

When a magistrate acting under section 43, section 44, section 45 or section 46 deems it necessary to require a person to show cause, he shall make an order in writing setting out— (a) the substance...

If the person in respect of whom an order under section 47 is made present in court, it shall be read over to him or, if he so desires, the substance thereof shall be explained to him.

If the person in respect of whom an order is made under section 47 is not present in court, the magistrate shall issue a summons requiring him to appear, or, when the person is in custody, a warrant...

Every summons or warrant issued under section 49 shall be accompanied by a copy of the order made under section 47, and the copy shall be delivered by the officer serving or executing the summons or...

The magistrate may, if he sees sufficient cause, dispense with the personal attendance of a person called upon to show cause why he should not be ordered to execute a bond for keeping the peace, and...

(1) When an order under section 47 has been read or explained under section48 to a person present in court, or when any person appears or is brought before a magistrate in compliance with or in...

(1) If upon an inquiry it is proved that it is necessary for keeping the peace ormaintaining good behaviour that the person in respect of whom the inquiry is made should be made subject to a...

If on an inquiry under section 52 it is not proved that it is necessary for keeping the peace or maintaining good behaviour that the person in respect of whom the inquiry is made should be subject to...

(1) If a person in respect of whom an order is made under section 47 or section53 is, at the time the order is made, sentenced to or undergoing a sentence of imprisonment, the period of such order...

of good behaviour, as the case may be, and in the latter case the commission or attempt to commit or the aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the commission of an offence punishable with...

A magistrate may refuse to accept a surety offered under any of the preceding sections of this Part on the ground that, for reasons to be recorded by the magistrate, the surety is an unfit person.

(1) If a person ordered to give security does not give security on or before the date on which the period for which security is to be given commences, he shall, except in the case mentioned in...

Whenever a magistrate empowered to hold a subordinate court of the first class is of the opinion that a person imprisoned for failing to give security may be released without hazard to the community,...

The High Court may at any time, for sufficient reasons to be recorded in writing, cancel any order made under section 47 or section 53.

(1) A surety for the peaceable conduct or good behaviour of another personmay at any time apply to a magistrate empowered to hold a subordinate court of the first class to cancel a bond executed under...

A person who, whilst subject to a restriction order, is found outside the district named in the order without the written permission of the chief officer of police of the district, or who fails to...

A person who, whilst subject to a restriction order, is found outside the districtnamed in the order without the written permission of the chief officer of police of the district, or who fails to...

A police officer may interpose for the purpose of preventing, and shall to the best of his ability prevent, the commission of a cognizable offence.

A police officer receiving information of a design to commit a cognizable offence shall communicate that information to the police officer to whom he is subordinate, and to any other officer whose...

A police officer knowing of a design to commit a cognizable offence may arrest, without orders from a magistrate and without a warrant, the person so designing, if it appears to the officer that the...

A police officer may of his own authority interpose to prevent injury attempted to be committed in his view to public property, movable or immovable, or the removal of or injury to any public landmark...