Code of Criminal Procedure Article 88-1
This English translation was last updated on 2020-01-15, but the Chinese text was amended on 2026-05-13. Later amendments may not be reflected in the translation — please refer to the Chinese text.
When investigating an offense when one of the following circumstances exists and the circumstances are urgent, a public prosecutor, judicial police officer, or judicial policeman may make an arrest without a warrant:(1) Where a person is strongly implicated to be a co-offender on ground of the statement of a person in flagrante delicto in addition to facts sufficient to warrant such strong implication;(2) Where a person who has escaped from custody while serving a sentence or while in detention;(3) Where facts are sufficient to warrant that a person is strongly suspected of having committed an offense, and the person runs away after being stopped and interrogated, unless the offense such a person is suspected of having committed is obviously an offence with maximum punishment being imprisonment for not more than one year or detention, or may only be punished by a fine;(4) Where a person who is strongly suspected of having committed an offense punishable by the death penalty, life imprisonment, or with minimum punishment of imprisonment for not less than five years, and there are facts sufficient to justify a view that such a person may abscond.The arrest specified in the preceding paragraph, when executed by a public prosecutor in person, may be made without a warrant. When the arrest is executed by a judicial police officer or judicial policeman, it may be made without a warrant only when the circumstance is so urgent that it is impossible to report the circumstances to a public prosecutor, and an application for the issuance of an arrest warrant shall be made to a public prosecutor immediately after the arrest. If the public prosecutor refuses to issue a warrant, the person under arrest shall be released immediately.A public prosecutor, judicial police officer or judicial policeman who arrests a suspect in accordance with the procedures as stipulated in Paragraph 1 above shall immediately inform the person under arrest and his/her family member that a defense attorney may be retained to be present.
中文原文 刑事訴訟法第88-1條
檢察官、司法警察官或司法警察偵查犯罪，有下列情形之一而情況急迫者，得逕行拘提之：
一、因現行犯之供述，且有事實足認為共犯嫌疑重大者。
二、在執行或在押中之脫逃者。
三、有事實足認為犯罪嫌疑重大，經被盤查而逃逸者。
但所犯顯係最重本刑為一年以下有期徒刑、拘役或專科罰金之罪者，不在此限。
四、所犯為死刑、無期徒刑或最輕本刑為五年以上有期徒刑之罪，嫌疑重大，有事實足認為有逃亡之虞者。
前項拘提，由檢察官親自執行時，得不用拘票；由司法警察官或司法警察執行時，以其急迫情況不及報告檢察官者為限，於執行後，應即報請檢察官簽發拘票。
如檢察官不簽發拘票時，應即將被拘提人釋放。
檢察官、司法警察官或司法警察，依第一項規定程序拘提犯罪嫌疑人，應即告知本人及其家屬，得選任辯護人到場。
一、因現行犯之供述，且有事實足認為共犯嫌疑重大者。
二、在執行或在押中之脫逃者。
三、有事實足認為犯罪嫌疑重大，經被盤查而逃逸者。
但所犯顯係最重本刑為一年以下有期徒刑、拘役或專科罰金之罪者，不在此限。
四、所犯為死刑、無期徒刑或最輕本刑為五年以上有期徒刑之罪，嫌疑重大，有事實足認為有逃亡之虞者。
前項拘提，由檢察官親自執行時，得不用拘票；由司法警察官或司法警察執行時，以其急迫情況不及報告檢察官者為限，於執行後，應即報請檢察官簽發拘票。
如檢察官不簽發拘票時，應即將被拘提人釋放。
檢察官、司法警察官或司法警察，依第一項規定程序拘提犯罪嫌疑人，應即告知本人及其家屬，得選任辯護人到場。