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Policing with accountability or policing with impunity?
source: IRR News published: 14 January 2016 The Home Office is currently reviewing legal protection for police officers who shoot to kill as well as considering whether to transfer the lead role in fighting terrorism from Scotland Yard to the National Crime Agency. And a review of the rules on the use of lethal force…
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IAP analysis on deaths in custody 2000-2014
source: The IAP published: Decemberรย 2015 The Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody has published the fifthรย statistical report into deaths in custody รขโฌโ covering the period 2000-2014. The IAP Panel has a commitment to publishing a statistical analysis of all deaths in state custody for each calendar year as data becomes available.รย รย As previously, the report…
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Campaign charity INQUEST launches its Skills and Support Toolkit
source: INQUEST published: 11 December 2015 INQUEST launched an online version of its Skills and Support Toolkit on 16th December. This resource, funded by the Big Lottery, has been developed with the help of a number of families, including INQUESTรขโฌโขs Family Reference Group, all of whom have had direct experience of a relative who has…
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Red Alert HELP! pilot Online Information Portal now open
source: Red Alert HELP! published: 8รย October 2015 Red Alert HELP! provides an interactive online advice portal available 24/7 x 365 to help you find the information, services or support that you need.รย Primarily featuring services in the West Midlands, there is also information on national services, campaigns and support initiatives. The portal consists of a type-recognition…
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UFFC Annual Procession 2015
The United Families and Friends Campaign (UFFC) is a national coalition of families and friends of those that have died in the custody of police and prison officers and in immigration detention and psychiatric hospitals in the UK.
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Theresa May launches independent review of deaths in police custody
Theresa May [announced] plans on Thursday to launch an independent review of deaths in police custody as she vows to stamp out the รขโฌลevasiveness and obstructionรขโฌย suffered by families at the hands of the authorities.
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IAP – Statistical analysis of deaths between 2000 & 2013
The IAP published their fourth statistical report into deaths in custody รขโฌโ covering the period 2000-2013. There were 523 recorded deaths in custody in 2013.
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Death in custody was neglect, rules inquest jury
A four-year battle for justice ended in victory as an inquest jury found neglect contributed to the death of Kingsley Burrell. He suffered a cardiac arrest after being restrained for a prolonged period of time with a towel over his head at the Oleaster Health Unit.
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Review of Sections 135 and 136 of the Mental Health Act
Section 135 of the Act gives police officers powers to enter private premises รขโฌโ with a warrant รขโฌโ to remove a person suspected of being in urgent need of a mental health assessment. Section 136 gives them powers to remove someone from a public place to a ‘place of safety’.
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Zephaniah: If I were Prime Minister: I’d order a review of all deaths in custody
Iรขโฌโขm an anarchist. So maybe I shouldnรขโฌโขt be here. After seeing what politicians of all persuasions have done to our country, there was no other way to go for me. People need to understand just how much they can do for themselves, so if I were forced to do the job Iรขโฌโขd abolish the post…