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 the warrant is unsuccessful, the circumstances shall be recorded and the record shall be sent with dispatch to the authority issuing the warrant.

If the person named in a criminal warrant has been arrested, or the person or article required by a warrant to be searched for has been discovered, such person or article shall, if possible, be sent with dispatch to the person issuing the warrant, save where it is otherwise ordered.

If a person arrested by virtue of a warrant absconds or enabled by anyone to abscond, the official conducting the arrest has the power to pursue and arrest him without requiring another warrant.

The reasons for issuing a warrant of arrest are as follows:

when a reasonably suspected alleged offender or an accused has no fixed residence;

when the maximum rate of punishment for the offence an alleged offender is reasonably suspected of or an accused is charged with is three years or more;