Contents
1. General 8
Notes for Guidance 11
2. Custody records 13
Note for Guidance 14
3. Initial action 15
(a) Detained persons - normal procedure 15
(b) Detained persons - special groups 17
(c)/(d) Documentation 19
Notes for Guidance 19
4. Detainee's property 20
(a) Action 20
(b) Documentation 20
Notes for Guidance 21
5. Right not to be held incommunicado 21
(a) Action 21
(b) Documentation 22
Notes for Guidance 22
6. Right to legal advice 23
(a) Action 23
(b) Documentation 27
Notes for Guidance 27
7. Citizens of independent Commonwealth countries or foreign nationals 29
(a) Action 29
(b) Documentation 30
Note for Guidance 30
8. Conditions of detention 30
(a) Action 30
(b) Documentation 31
Notes for Guidance 32
9. Care and treatment of detained persons 32
(a) General 32
(b) Clinical treatment and attention 33
(c) Documentation 34
Notes for Guidance 35
10. Cautions 35
(a) When a caution must be given 35
(b) Terms of the cautions 36
(c) Special warnings under the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, sections 36 and 37 37
(d) Juveniles and persons who are mentally disordered or otherwise mentally vulnerable 37
(e) Documentation 38
Notes for Guidance 38
11. Interviews - general 38
(a) Action 38
(b) Interview records 40
(c) Juveniles and mentally disordered or otherwise mentally vulnerable people 40
(d) Vulnerable suspects - urgent interviews at police stations 40
Notes for Guidance 41
12. Interviews in police stations 42
(a) Action 42
(b) Documentation 43
Notes for Guidance 44
13. Interpreters 44
(a) General 44
(b) Interviewing suspects - foreign languages 45
(c) Interviewing suspects who have a hearing or speech impediment 46
(d) Additional rules for detained persons 46
(e) Translations of essential documents 46
(f) Decisions not to provide interpretation and translation. 47
(g) Documentation 47
Notes for Guidance 47
14. Reviews and Extensions of Detention under the Terrorism Act 2000 48
(a) General 48
(b) Transfer of persons detained for more than 14 days to prison 48
(c) Documentation 49
Notes for Guidance 49
15. Charging and post-charge questioning in terrorism cases 51
(a) Charging 51
(b) Post-charge questioning 51
Right to legal advice 52
Cautions 52
Interviews 52
Recording post-charge questioning 53
Notes for Guidance 53
16. Testing persons for the presence of specified Class A drugs 54
ANNEX A. INTIMATE AND STRIP SEARCHES 55
A. Intimate search 55
(a) Action 55
(b) Documentation 56
B. Strip search 56
(a) Action 56
(b) Documentation 57
Notes for Guidance 57
ANNEX B. DELAY IN NOTIFYING ARREST OR ALLOWING ACCESS TO LEGAL ADVICE FOR PERSONS DETAINED UNDER THE TERRORISM ACT 2000. 58
A. DELAYS under TACT Schedule 8 58
B. Documentation 59
C. Cautions and special warnings 59
Notes for Guidance 59
ANNEX C. RESTRICTION ON DRAWING ADVERSE INFERENCES FROM SILENCE AND TERMS OF THE CAUTION WHEN THE RESTRICTION APPLIES 60
(a) The restriction on drawing adverse inferences from silence 60
(b) Terms of the caution when the restriction applies 60
Notes for Guidance 61
ANNEX D. WRITTEN STATEMENTS UNDER CAUTION 62
(a) Written by a person under caution 62
(b) Written by a police officer or other police staff 62
ANNEX E. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS RELATING TO MENTALLY DISORDERED AND OTHERWISE MENTALLY VULNERABLE PEOPLE 65
Notes for Guidance 66
ANNEX F. Not used 67
ANNEX G. FITNESS TO BE INTERVIEWED 68
ANNEX H. DETAINED PERSON: OBSERVATION LIST 69
ANNEX I. ESTABLISHING GENDER OF PERSONS FOR THE PURPOSE OF SEARCHING 70
(a) Consideration 70
(b) Documentation 71
(c) Disclosure of information 71
Note for Guidance 71
ANNEX J. TRANSFER OF PERSONS DETAINED FOR MORE THAN 14 DAYS TO PRISON 73
Notes for Guidance 74
ANNEX K. DOCUMENTS AND RECORDS TO BE TRANSLATED 75
Note for Guidance 76