Guidance on the safer detention and handling of persons in police custody - first edition
This guidance aims to build community confidence, ensure the successful outcome to an investigation, engage support in building safer, more secure neighbourhoods and promoting a safer working enviroment for staff by setting out both the legal framework within which the police must operate to tackle crime and the protections and safeguards for the public in England and Wales.
This guidance has now been replaced by a second edition, published in March 2012.
Date: Tue Apr 19 13:41:57 BST 2011
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