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PACE Code C (2023)

PACE Code of Practice (SI 2023/1422) · issued under s.66 PACE 1984

A Code of Practice issued under section 66 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984; admissible in evidence in criminal and civil proceedings and relevant to any question of admissibility under section 67(11) PACE 1984.
1 General2 Custody records3 Initial action4 Detainee’s property5 Right not to be held incommunicado6 Right to legal advice7 Citizens of independent Commonwealth countries or foreign nationals8 Conditions of detention9 Care and treatment of detained persons10 Cautions11 Interviews - general12 Interviews in police stations13 Interpreters14 Questioning - special restrictions15 Reviews and extensions of detention16 Charging detained persons17 Testing persons for the presence of specified Class A drugsAnnex A: Intimate and strip searchesAnnex B: Delay in notification of arrest and whereabouts or allowing access to legal adviceAnnex C: Restriction on drawing adverse inferences from silence and terms of the caution when the restriction appliesAnnex D: Written statements under cautionAnnex E: Summary of provisions relating to vulnerable personsAnnex F: Not usedAnnex G: Fitness to be interviewedAnnex H: Detained person: observation listAnnex I: Not usedAnnex J: Not usedAnnex K: X-rays and ultrasound scansAnnex L: Establishing gender of persons for the purpose of searching and certain other proceduresAnnex M: Documents and records to be translatedAnnex N: Live-link interpretation (para 13.12)

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    Last checked: 2023-12-20
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