Short answer. Yes. Rule 113, Section 13 provides that if a person lawfully arrested escapes or is rescued, any person may immediately pursue or retake him without a warrant, at any time and in any place within the Philippines. No fresh warrant is required for the recapture; the original lawful arrest carries through.
What the law says
If a person lawfully arrested escapes or is rescued, any person may immediately pursue or retake him without a warrant at any time and in any place within the Philippines.
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What the section says
The rule is a single sentence: If a person lawfully arrested escapes or is rescued, any person may immediately pursue or retake him without a warrant at any time and in any place within the Philippines. The premise is that custody was lawfully acquired in the first place — the person was lawfully arrested — and then lost through escape or through rescue by others. Retaking such a person is not a new arrest requiring new judicial authority; it is the restoration of a custody the law already sanctioned, which is why no warrant is demanded for it.
"Any person" — not only the police
The authority the section grants is strikingly broad in one respect: it is given to any person, not only to peace officers. The guard from whom the detainee fled, other law enforcement units, even a private citizen may pursue or retake the escapee. That breadth mirrors the reality of escapes — the person best positioned to retake a fleeing detainee is whoever is nearest, and the law does not require them to stand aside while a warrant is sought. What the section authorises, though, is pursuit and retaking; it is not a licence for violence beyond what recapture requires.
"At any time and in any place within the Philippines"
The section removes the usual boundaries. There is no time limit — at any time means the authority does not expire days or months after the escape — and no geographic one short of the national border: in any place within the Philippines. An escapee gains nothing by crossing from one city or province into another. The one limit the phrase does draw is territorial sovereignty: the rule speaks only within the Philippines, so a flight abroad puts the person beyond this section and into different mechanisms altogether.
The premise that can be contested
Everything in the section hangs on the opening words: lawfully arrested. The provision restores a lawful custody; it does not cure an unlawful one. A person whose original arrest was invalid does not become validly detained merely by being retaken under this rule, and challenging the legality of the original arrest remains the terrain on which such cases are fought. Anyone facing this situation — as the person retaken or as a family member — should have counsel examine how the first arrest was made, because that is where the legal question actually lives.