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The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Visual Recording of Interviews) (Certain Police Areas) (Revocation) Order 2003

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Explanatory Note

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This Order revokes with effect from 1st November 2003 the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Visual Recording of Interviews) (Certain Police Areas) Order 2002 and the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Visual Recording of Interviews) (Certain Police Areas) (No. 2) Order 2002 with the result that visual recording of interviews in the areas specified in those Orders is no longer mandatory.

The areas specified in the Orders were: Basingstoke, Portsmouth, Southampton, Chatham, Gravesend, Tonbridge, Bromley, Colindale, Edmonton, Redditch, Telford, Worcester, Harlow, Colchester and Southend.

Code F, the Code of Practice on Visual Recording with Sound of Interviews with Suspects, remains in force. Police officers who choose to visually record with sound interviews of suspects will still be required to have regard to the terms of Code F.

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