The book narrates the criminal justice procedures and the role of the Criminal Procedure Code in facilitating this process. Since the first book was published in 2010, there are significant changes in the criminal justice system that not only injected transparency and expediency in the dispensing of criminal justice but were the product of growing sensitivity in the system to culminating from societal concerns and expectations of the criminal justice. These changes are incorporated in the second edition of the book. The book has also been crafted in such a way that it sequentially narrates the procedures of criminal justice as it develops and the role of the Criminal Procedure Code in facilitating this process. Key Features • Highlighting the restructuring of the chapters on arrest, search and charges and in the introduction of two tropical matters, the institution of the Public Prosecutor and Inquiries of Death • Explaining the early stages of the criminal process from activation with the lodging of a police report, search, investigations, arrest, charges and other pre-trial procedures and reflects the position of the law as currently applied in the administration of criminal justice • Focusing on the initial stages of the process of criminal justice which provides the readers with a realistic and practical approach to not only understanding the workings of the Criminal Procedure Code, but also its application • The narrative enhances the readers’ cognizance in the understanding of the subject matter as it successfully breaks down the complexity and intricacies of the Criminal Justice System