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Fafa E M'Bai former Attorney General and minister of Justice and a senior member of the Gambia Bar Association has stressed that arrests must be justified, noting that accused persons cannot be detained at the whim of the police.

"An arrest must be justified; the accused person cannot be detained at the whim of the police and must be formally charged; the interrogation of the accused must be carried out fairly; he may be entitled to bail, and he has the right to be defended by an advocate," he said.

M' Bai was addressing a cross section of state prosecutors at the AG Chambers over the weekend while presenting a paper on "Advocacy and the Litigation Process" at a two-day training held at the Legal Capacity Building Office in .

He said the rules of criminal procedure embody the principle that a person is innocent until he is proven guilty, but balances this interest against the need to grant the police the appropriate power