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Significance of arrest warrants

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  • 30-07-2012 5:55pm
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    theAwakening
    Registered Users Posts: 254 ✭✭


    Can someone definitively explain the significance of arrest warrants (not EAWs, not bench warrants) in criminal investigations, and provide me with the statutory basis for same (eg. District court rules 1997)

    Do they stop the clock as regard statutary limitations? Do they provide AGS with the power of arrest for offences which otherwise have no statutory power of arrest in order to commence proceedings?

    Also to clarify im not referring to arrest warrants obtained by superintendents for rearrests of suspects where new evidence becomes available concerning their participation in the alleged offence.


    Thanks.


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    johnnyskeleton
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,469 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    They simply allow a person to be arrested. Time for the petty sessions act only starts when the complaint is made, either from the application and issue of a summons or from the arrest and laying of a complaint before the court (arrest charge and caution).

    In practical terms an arrest warrant would not normally be necessary for a summary only prosecution - either they would be arrested under a specific power of arrest eg s24 public order or they would use the summons procedure.


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