Question follow-through · 18126
Police Custody
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department issues on the steps the police should take when someone who enters police custody is found to have had an acquired brain injury.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 5 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 9 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 11 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department issues on the steps the police should take when someone who enters police custody is found to have had an acquired brain injury.
9 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Dec 2024
Answer published
Police custody officers should carry out an assessment of the risk and vulnerability of everyone in custody, on an individual basis. This assessment should take into account the person’s behaviour, any signs of illness or injury, their communication, incl...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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