Summary apprehension of offender in certain cases

(1) Any person found committing any crime may be apprehended by anyone without warrant, and anyone may, without warrant, arrest the person if that crime has actually been committed, or if the person arrested is being pursued by hue and cry, but not otherwise. (2) Any person to whom any property is offered to be sold, pawned or delivered, and who has reasonable ground to suspect that a crime has been or is about to be committed thereon or with respect thereto may, and if he can shall, without warrant apprehend the person offering the property, and take possession of the property so offered. 105 (3) A person who finds any person in possession of property which he on reasonable grounds suspects to have been obtained by any crime may arrest that person without warrant and take possession of the property. (4) A person who arrests any person under any of the provisions contained in this section shall, if the person making the arrest is not himself a peace officer, deliver the person so arrested to a police officer, in order that he may be conveyed as soon as reasonably may be before a magistrate, to be dealt with by the magistrate according to law, or himself convey him before a magistrate as soon as reasonably may be. CAP. 138. (5) Nothing in this section shall affect the powers of apprehension conferred upon police officers by the Police Act.