The Detention Clock, With the Section Beside Every Figure CUSTODY
The clock in Part IV of PACE 1984 does not start at the arrest. This works out the relevant time under s.41(2), then every limit and review that hangs off it.
How the detention began
The clock does not start at the arrest. Section 41(2) gives four answers, and which one applies moves every limit and every review with it.
Where the clock stands
Authorities given
Tick only what has actually been authorised. Twenty-four hours is the answer until a superintendent says otherwise, however long the warrant application is going to take.
Time that does not count
Section 41(6): time at hospital, and being taken there and back, is left out — unless the person was questioned there for the purpose of obtaining evidence, in which case the whole of it counts.
| Left the station | Back at the station | Questioned | Not counted |
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Reviews
| Due | Carried out | Review officer | On time |
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Custody time limits
The other clock: the Prosecution of Offences (Custody Time Limits) Regulations 1987, which run in days and govern remand rather than detention at a station.
The working, written out
Every figure with the section it comes from, so it can be checked rather than trusted. This is a calculation; the custody record is the record.
SHA-256 of the above: —
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