Relevant Background Documents to Bulletin 3

You will find below some documents, or links to documents, which may be of relevance. There are also links to some websites with useful related material. It is, however, very much a selection and is not intended to be comprehensive.

• Custody Bulletin case factor table
  This maps the risk factors and issues arising out of the cases featured in the bulletin.
  
  
• Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) Codes
  You will find the PACE Codes referred to in the bulletin here
  
  
• Guidance on the Safer Detention and Handling of Persons in Police Custody
  This is the Guidance referred to in the bulletin - produced jointly by the Home Office and the Association of Chief Police Officers.
  
  
• Deaths during or following police contact
  The IPCC produces an annual report on deaths during or following police contact and this is the most recent one (2006/7).
  
  
• Police healthcare
  This section of the Home Office website focuses on effective healthcare for those coming into contact with the police.
  
  
• Forum for Preventing Deaths in Custody website
  The Forum aims to capture and promote learning from all institutions which keep people in custody, as well as their various oversight and inspection bodies and other interested organisations.
  
  
• Prisons and Probation Ombudsman for England and Wales website
  This website has information on learning from cases in the prison and probation sectors.