Harbouring or concealing gang members

(1) A person who harbours a person whom he knows or ought to know is a gang member or is wanted by any law enforcement authority for any gang-related activity 16 commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years. (2) Where in sub-section (1)– (a) the gang member or person wanted by any law enforcement authority for any gang- related activity is a child; and (b) the person convicted is the parent or is acting in loco parentis of the child, the Court, in sentencing the person convicted, shall take into consideration mitigating factors such as any efforts made by the person convicted to reform or rehabilitate the child. (3) A person who conceals a person whom he knows or ought to know is a gang member or is wanted by any law enforcement authority for any gang-related activity commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years. (4) For the purposes of sub-section (3), a person conceals another person if the person– (a) knows or ought to know that the other person is a gang member or is wanted by any law authority in connection with the investigation or for the commission of any gang-related activity; and (b) in response to an enquiry from a law enforcement authority or member thereof as to the whereabouts of the other person, does not reveal the whereabouts to the Crime Control and Criminal Justice[CAP. 102 17 enquirer, despite knowing where the other person is located. (5) Any gang member or other person who knows, or ought to have known that a Warrant in the First Instance had been issued by a Magistrate for the arrest of the person in relation to any offence under this Part, and fails to present himself to the nearest police station within five days of such communication shall, in addition to any penalties prescribed under this Part for such first offence, be liable upon conviction of the first offence to additional imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years, however, time against the person shall begin to run after six o’clock in the forenoon on which the police has publicly informed the person of the warrant, which communication shall be issued to the person by means of an official Press release, communicated at the instance of the police by way of national radio and television broadcast.