Question follow-through · 82843
Police Custody: Photographs
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department provides to police forces on the taking of custody photographs of suspects who attend voluntary interviews.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 16 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 24 Oct 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department provides to police forces on the taking of custody photographs of suspects who attend voluntary interviews.
20 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Oct 2025
Answer published
Voluntary interviews are used to question a person who is not under arrest about their suspected involvement in a criminal offence, particularly in cases where the legal threshold for arrest is not met. The decision to voluntarily interview a suspect rest...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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