Deserters and absentees without leave surrendering to police

(1) Where in Belize a person surrenders himself to a police officer as being illegally absent from the Force, the police officer shall (unless he or she surrenders himself at a police station) bring him to a police station. (2) The police officer in charge of a police station at which a person who has so surrendered himself is brought shall forthwith inquire into the case, and if it appears to that officer that the person is illegally absent, he may cause him to be delivered into military custody without bringing him before a magistrates’ court or may bring him before a magistrates’ court.