be brought before a judge within one or two days, the majority of suspects were deprived of their liberty for longer periods without the required judicial oversight. (j) The maintenance of custody registers should be scrupulously ensured, including recording of the time and place of arrest, the identity of the personnel, the actual place of detention, the state of health upon arrival of the person at the detention centre, the time at which the family and a lawyer were contacted and visited the detainee, and information on compulsory medical examinations upon being brought to a detention centre and upon transfer The Criminal Code requires the proper maintenance of records of any person in confinement and punishes neglect or deliberate false entries. However, in practice these records were frequently incomplete or inaccurate. Lagos State has implemented a new computerized case tracking system, following cases from arraignment through their conclusion. However, the tracking commences only when a detainee is produced before court, not at the point of arrest. Non-governmental sources: Reports have been received that in some police stations the police register detainees on a piece of paper for bribery purposes. Once the detainees have paid the so called “police bail”, they are released. (k) Confessions made by persons in custody without the presence of a lawyer and that are not confirmed before a judge shall not be admissible as evidence In spite of legal provisions that provide that a confession made by an accused person cannot be used to secure a conviction, Nigeria’s criminal justice system relies heavily on The new criminal procedures in Lagos State provide for video taping of interrogations; where no video is available, the lawyer of the suspect should attend the interrogation. Non-governmental sources: Under the Evidence Act, confessions extracted under inducement, threat or promise cannot be used in court. However, in practice, confessions are often allowed to be used in court. When allegations of torture arise in by Lagos State, magistrate courts can open on Saturdays to ensure suspects can be brought before a court within 24 hours. Despite this, many detainees still spend weeks in police detention after their arrest without being seen by a judge. A/HRC/13/39/Add.6 136 facilities under the control of their interrogators or investigators for more than the time required by law to obtain a judicial warrant of pre-trial detention, which should not exceed 48 hours. After this period they should be transferred to a pre-trial facility under a different authority, where no further unsupervised contact with the interrogators or investigators should be permitted