Contents
1. General 10
Notes for Guidance 13
2. Custody records 16
Notes for Guidance 17
3. Initial action 17
(a) Detained persons - normal procedure 17
(b) Detained persons - special groups 20
(c) Persons attending a police station or elsewhere voluntarily 21
(d) Documentation 22
(e) Persons answering street bail 22
Notes for Guidance 22
4. Detainee's property 23
(a) Action 23
(b) Documentation 24
Notes for Guidance 24
5. Right not to be held incommunicado 25
(a) Action 25
(b) Documentation 26
Notes for Guidance 26
6. Right to legal advice 26
(a) Action 26
(b) Documentation 30
Notes for Guidance 30
7. Citizens of independent Commonwealth countries or foreign nationals 33
(a) Action 33
(b) Documentation 33
Notes for Guidance 34
8. Conditions of detention 34
(a) Action 34
(b) Documentation 35
Notes for Guidance 35
9. Care and treatment of detained persons 35
(a) General 35
(b) Clinical treatment and attention 36
(c) Documentation 37
Notes for Guidance 38
10. Cautions 39
(a) When a caution must be given 39
(b) Terms of the cautions 40
(c) Special warnings under the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, sections 36 and 37 40
(d) Juveniles and persons who are mentally disordered or otherwise mentally vulnerable 41
(e) Documentation 41
Notes for Guidance 42
11. Interviews - general 42
(a) Action 42
(b) Interview records 44
(c) Juveniles and mentally disordered or otherwise mentally vulnerable people 45
(d) Vulnerable suspects - urgent interviews at police stations 45
Notes for Guidance 46
12. Interviews in police stations 47
(a) Action 47
(b) Documentation 48
Notes for Guidance 49
13. Interpreters 49
(a) General 49
(b) Interviewing suspects - foreign languages 50
(c) Interviewing suspects who have a hearing or speech impediment 51
(d) Additional rules for detained persons 51
(e) Translations of essential documents 52
(f) Decisions not to provide interpretation and translation. 52
(g) Documentation 52
Notes for Guidance 52
14. Questioning - special restrictions 53
Notes for Guidance 53
15. Reviews and extensions of detention 53
(a) Persons detained under PACE 53
(b) Review of detention by telephone and video conferencing facilities 55
(c) Documentation 56
Notes for Guidance 56
16. Charging detained persons 58
(a) Action 58
(b) Documentation 60
Notes for Guidance 60
17. Testing persons for the presence of specified Class A drugs 62
(a) Action 62
(b) Documentation 64
(c) General 64
(d) Assessment of misuse of drugs 64
Notes for Guidance 65
ANNEX A. INTIMATE AND STRIP SEARCHES 68
A. Intimate search 68
(a) Action 68
(b) Documentation 69
B. Strip search 70
(a) Action 70
(b) Documentation 71
Notes for Guidance 71
ANNEX B. DELAY IN NOTIFYING ARREST OR ALLOWING ACCESS TO LEGAL ADVICE 72
A. Persons detained under PACE 72
B. Not used 73
C. Documentation 73
D. Cautions and special warnings 73
Notes for Guidance 73
ANNEX C. RESTRICTION ON DRAWING ADVERSE INFERENCES FROM SILENCE AND TERMS OF THE CAUTION WHEN THE RESTRICTION APPLIES 74
(a) The restriction on drawing adverse inferences from silence 74
(b) Terms of the caution when the restriction applies 74
Notes for Guidance 75
ANNEX D. WRITTEN STATEMENTS UNDER CAUTION 76
(a) Written by a person under caution 76
(b) Written by a police officer or other police staff 77
ANNEX E. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS RELATING TO MENTALLY DISORDERED AND OTHERWISE MENTALLY VULNERABLE PEOPLE 79
Notes for Guidance 81
ANNEX F. Not used 81
ANNEX G. FITNESS TO BE INTERVIEWED 82
ANNEX H. DETAINED PERSON: OBSERVATION LIST 83
ANNEX I. Not used 84
ANNEX J. Not used 84
ANNEX K. X-RAYS AND ULTRASOUND SCANS 84
(a) Action 84
(b) Documentation 85
Notes for Guidance 85
ANNEX L. ESTABLISHING GENDER OF PERSONS FOR THE PURPOSE OF SEARCHING 86
(a) Consideration 86
(b) Documentation 87
(c) Disclosure of information 87
Notes for Guidance 87
ANNEX M. DOCUMENTS AND RECORDS TO BE TRANSLATED 89