Section 10: Inventory of property of arrested suspect

(1) A police officer making an arrest or to whom a private person hands over the suspect, shall immediately record information about the arrested suspect and an inventory of all items or properties recovered from the suspect.
(2) An inventory recorded under subsection (1) of this section shall be duly signed by the police officer and the arrested suspect, provided that the failure of the arrested suspect to sign the inventory shall not invalidate it.
(3) The arrested suspect, his legal practitioner, or such other person as the arrested suspect may direct, shall be given a copy of the inventory.
(4) Where any property has been taken under this section from an arrested suspect, a police officer may upon request by either the owner of the property or parties having interest in the property release such property on bond pending the arraignment of the arrested suspect before a Court.
(5) Where a police officer refuses to release the property to the owner or any person having interest in the property under subsection (4) of this Section, the police officer shall make a report to the court of the fact of the property taken from the arrested suspect and the particulars of the property.
(6) The court to which a report is made under subsection (5) of this Section, may if of the opinion that the property or any portion of it can be returned in the interest of justice to the safe custody of the owner or person having interest in the property, direct that the property or any portion of it be returned to the owner or to such person(s) having interest in the property.
(7) Where any property has been taken from a suspect under this section, and the suspect is not charged before a court but is released on the ground that there is no sufficient reason to believe that he has committed an offence, any property so taken from the suspect shall be returned to him, provided the property is neither connected to nor a proceed of offence.