§702 Arrest of Offenders

Summary

When the commander of a friendly foreign force that has courts in the United States asks, U.S. officials who can make arrests may immediately arrest a named member of that force and hand them to an officer of that force or to U.S. military/naval authorities, who must then give the person to the foreign officer for trial in the foreign service courts in the United States for offenses those courts can hear. If the charge is for a crime against a civilian, the trial must be public (unless security rules forbid it), held quickly in the United States, and kept reasonably close to where the crime is said to have happened so witnesses can attend.