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    The document summarizes the legal doctrine of "hot pursuit" which allows peace officers or private persons to make a warrantless arrest under specific circumstances: (1) if a person commits an offense in their presence, (2) if they have personal knowledge that a person committed an offense that was just committed, or (3) if the person to be arrested is an escaped prisoner. The document provides this summary of the hot pursuit doctrine in a syllabus from the People v. Enrile case from the Supreme Court of the Philippines.

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    The document summarizes the legal doctrine of "hot pursuit" which allows peace officers or private persons to make a warrantless arrest under specific circumstances: (1) if a person commits an offense in their presence, (2) if they have personal knowledge that a person committed an offense that was just committed, or (3) if the person to be arrested is an escaped prisoner. The document provides this summary of the hot pursuit doctrine in a syllabus from the People v. Enrile case from the Supreme Court of the Philippines.

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    People vs. Enrile

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    Edabel Jane Falcasantos
    The document summarizes the legal doctrine of "hot pursuit" which allows peace officers or private persons to make a warrantless arrest under specific circumstances: (1) if a person commits an offense in their presence, (2) if they have personal knowledge that a person committed an offense that was just committed, or (3) if the person to be arrested is an escaped prisoner. The document provides this summary of the hot pursuit doctrine in a syllabus from the People v. Enrile case from the Supreme Court of the Philippines.

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    People v.

    Enrile
    222 SCRA 586

    SYLLABUS: HOT PURSUIT

    DOCTRINE:
    A peace officer or a private person may make a warrantless arrest only under any of the following
    circumstances:
    (a) When, in his presence, the person to be arrested has committed, is actually
    committing, or is attempting to commit an offense;
    (b) When an offense has in fact just been committed, and he has personal knowledge of
    facts indicating that the person to be arrested has committed it; and
    (c) When the person to be arrested is a prisoner who has escaped from a penal
    establishment or place where he is serving final judgment or temporarily confined
    while his case is pending, or has escaped while being transferred from one
    confinement to another.

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