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Cherry Groce: Mum’s police shooting ‘robbed me of my childhood’
Lee Lawrence was just 11 years old when his life changed forever. He had fallen asleep in his mother’s room and was awoken by a loud noise. She went to investigate but moments later he heard a gunshot.
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Council of Europe anti-torture Committee publishes report on the UK
The Council of Europeรขโฌโขs Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment has published the report on its visit to the UK, in May 2019, and response of UK authorities.
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On Tasers, policing and imagining new responses to violence
With the recent announcement of Tasers being made more widely available for use by the police in the UK, black feminist organiser and Global Health postgraduate Sarah Lasoye argues that the health community must take notice.
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IAP analysis on deaths in custody to March 2018
The Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody has published statistical report into deaths in custody รขโฌโ covering the period to March 2018. The report also gives information about incidents of self-harm and assaults in prison.
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Families of people who died in police custody failed by system รขโฌโ report
source: The Guardian published: 4 September 2017 A long-awaited unpublished official report into deaths in police custody says families who have lost loved ones have been failed by the system and recommends far-reaching reforms to the police, justice system and health service, the Guardian has learned. The report, ordered by Theresa May in 2015 while…
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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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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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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’.