SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 9Additional powers and duties of designated persons

Escort officers

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(1)

Paragraph 34 (power to take an arrested person to a police station) is amended as follows.

(2)

In sub-paragraph (1)(c)—

(a)

in paragraph (ii), after “duty” insert “ to keep the person under control and ”,

(b)

in paragraph (iii), at the end add “ and under his control ”.

(3)

After sub-paragraph (1)(c) add—

“(d)

a person who has taken another person to a police station in exercise of the power conferred by virtue of paragraph (a)—

(i)

shall be under a duty to remain at the police station until he has transferred control of the other person to the custody officer at the police station;

(ii)

until he has so transferred control of the other person, shall be treated for all purposes as having that person in his lawful custody;

(iii)

for so long as he is at the police station or in its immediate vicinity in compliance with, or having complied with, his duty under sub-paragraph (i), shall be under a duty to prevent the escape of the other person and to assist in keeping him under control; and

(iv)

shall be entitled to use reasonable force for the purpose of complying with his duty under sub-paragraph (iii).”