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[CITE: 22USC702]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
          CHAPTER 13--SERVICE COURTS OF FRIENDLY FOREIGN FORCES
 
Sec. 702. Arrest of offenders

    Upon a specific or general request of the officer commanding any 
friendly foreign force, having service courts of appropriate 
jurisdiction within the United States, it shall be lawful for any person 
in the civil, military, or naval establishments of the United States 
having authority to arrest, summarily to arrest any member of such force 
designated in such request and to deliver him to the custody of any 
officer of such force or to the custody of the military or naval 
authorities of the United States who shall deliver him forthwith to the 
custody of an officer of such force, for trial in such service courts 
within the United States for such offenses as shall lie within the 
jurisdiction of the service courts of such friendly foreign force: 
Provided, That the trial of any member of such friendly foreign force 
for an offense against a member of the civilian population shall be in 
open court (except where security consideration forbids), shall take 
place promptly in the United States and within a reasonable distance 
from the place where the offense is alleged to have been committed, for 
the convenience of witnesses.

(June 30, 1944, ch. 326, Sec. 2, 58 Stat. 643.)
