In order to enforce a sentence of imprisonment or confinement, the public prosecutor and the public prosecutor may authorise law enforcement officers to enter the home of the convicted person in order to seize the person. However, the officers may not enter the person’s home before 6am and after 9pm.
Any person arrested by virtue of an extract from a judgment or decree sentencing them to a term of imprisonment or detention may be held for twenty-four hours in police or gendarmerie premises, for the purposes of verifying their identity, criminal status or personal situation.
The public prosecutor, or the public prosecutor, is informed as soon as the measure begins.
The arrested person is immediately informed by the judicial police officer that he or she may exercise the rights provided for by articles 63-2,63-3 and 63-4.
When, at the end of the measure, the public prosecutor, or the public prosecutor, considers bringing the sentence back into effect, he or she may order that the person be brought before him or her. After taking any observations from the person, the public prosecutor notifies him or her of the committal order, if applicable.
The public prosecutor, or the public prosecutor, may also ask a judicial police officer or agent to notify the person that he or she has been summoned to appear before the sentence enforcement judge, or order that he or she be brought before this magistrate, when the matter must be referred to the judge to decide how the sentence is to be enforced.