Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, Paragraph 7 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 04 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
7E+WAfter paragraph 33A (inserted by paragraph 16 of Schedule 8 to this Act) insert—
33BWhere a designation applies this paragraph to any person, he shall be under a duty, when in the course of his employment he is present at a police station—
(a)to keep under control any person detained at the police station and for whom he is for the time being responsible;
(b)to assist any officer or other designated person to keep any other person detained at the police station under control; and
(c)to prevent the escape of any such person as is mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b),
and for those purposes shall be entitled to use reasonable force.
33CWhere a designation applies this paragraph to any person, he shall be entitled to use reasonable force when—
(a)securing, or assisting an officer or another designated person to secure, the detention of a person detained at a police station in the relevant police area, or
(b)escorting within a police station in the relevant police area, or assisting an officer or another designated person to escort within such a police station, a person detained there.”
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 9 para. 7 in force at 1.7.2005 by S.I. 2005/1521, art. 3(1)(j)
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