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A HIGH COURT judge has called for legislative intervention to lay out procedures and clarify police powers in the detention of individuals.

Justice Carol Gobin made the call in a ruling on September 15. In that ruling, she held that the State breached a man’s constitutional rights by detaining him for four days before taking him before a magistrate.

The judge called on the legislature to address the gap in the law that leaves detainees vulnerable.