The police may deprive a person of liberty if there are reasons for detention under Article 281 paragraph 1 of the present Code, but shall be obliged to bring him or her without delay to a pre-trial judge to rule on detention on remand. (Article 211 PCPC) Exceptionally the police can arrest and detain a person if: (Article 212 (1) PCPC) There is a grounded suspicion that he or she has committed a criminal offence which is prosecuted ex officio; (Article 212 (1) (1) PCPC) Arrest and detention is necessary to establish the identity of the person, to check an alibi or to collect information and items of evidence for the criminal offence in question; and (Article 212 (1) (2) PCPC) There are reasons for detention under Article 281 paragraph 1 subparagraph 2 points (i) and (iii) of the present Code; or there is good reason to fear that the person might destroy evidence of the criminal offence (Article 281 paragraph 1 subparagraph 2, point (ii) of the present Code). (Article 212 (1) (3) PCPC) The arrest and detention under paragraph 1 of the present article shall be authorized by the public prosecutor or, when due to exigent circumstances such authorization cannot be obtained prior to arrest, by the police who must inform the public prosecutor immediately after the arrest. (Article 212 (2) PCPC) Upon arrest, the arrested person shall be informed: (Article 212 (3) PCPC) Orally of the rights set forth in Article 214 of the present Code; and (Article 212 (3) (1) PCPC) In writing of the other rights which he or she enjoys under the present Code. (Article 212 (3) (2) PCPC) Detention under the present article may not exceed seventy-two hours from the time of arrest. On the expiry of that period the police shall release the detainee, unless a pre-trial judge has ordered detention on remand. (Article 212 (4) PCPC) As soon as possible after the arrest and no later than six hours from the time of thearrest, the public prosecutor or an authorized senior police officer shall issue 9

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