PART 1ARREST AND CUSTODY
CHAPTER 1ARREST BY POLICE
Procedure following arrest
4Arrested person to be taken to police station
1
Where a person is arrested by a constable outwith a police station, a constable must take the person as quickly as is reasonably practicable to a police station.
2
Subsection (1) ceases to apply, and the person must be released from police custody immediately, if—
a
the person has been arrested without a warrant,
b
the person has not yet arrived at a police station in accordance with this section, and
c
in the opinion of a constable there are no reasonable grounds for suspecting that the person has committed—
i
the offence in respect of which the person was arrested, or
ii
an offence arising from the same circumstances as that offence.
3
For the avoidance of doubt, subsection (1) ceases to apply if, before arriving at a police station in accordance with this section, the person is released from custody under—
a
section 25(2), or
b
section 28(3A) of the 1995 Act.