If the person against whom a warrant of committal with deferred effect has been issued fails, without legitimate reason, to appear before the public prosecutor or at the prison on the date set for his or her incarceration, the public prosecutor may enforce the sentence by resorting, if necessary, to the force publique, where the sentence is enforceable or, except in the case of an opposition lodged against a sentence in absentia, where the warrant has been provisionally enforced. To this end, he may issue a research note pursuant to 1° of article 230-19.
When a deferred committal order has been issued and the sentence is enforceable or the order has been provisionally enforced, the public prosecutor may also enforce the sentence at any time, in particular without waiting for the date that has been set or is to be set for incarceration, if the person is incarcerated under another procedure, or in an emergency resulting either from a risk of danger to persons or property established by the occurrence of a new fact, or from a proven risk of the sentenced person absconding.