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Section 15: Your Right to Make a Citizen's Arrest in Uganda

15.Arrest by private person

(1)A private person may arrest any person who in his or her view commits a cognisable offence, or whom he or she reasonably suspects of having committed a felony.

(2)A person found committing any offence involving injury to property may be arrested without a warrant by the owner of the property or his or her servants or persons authorised by him or her.

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You have the right to arrest someone if you see them committing a serious crime (called a cognisable offence) or if you reasonably suspect they have c...

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