Sentences with phrase «police cells»

Another reason for the increasing prison crisis which has resulted in defendants being held in police cells throughout the country has been the government's erosion of judicial independence.

The government has been forced to introduce emergency measures to tackle a bursting jail population, which includes using police cells from today.

The ship also has its own police cells and hospital.

Labour MP Simon Danczuk thrown in police cell after holiday row with estranged wife Karen - who ended up in hospital

Last night, my State Governor, Dr. Abdulfatai Ahmed revealed to me an information at his disposal that a group of suspects who had been in police cells for several weeks for cultism and whose investigation had been concluded with prosecution about to commence under the State law based on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) and the Ministry of Justice were ordered to be transferred to Abuja this morning.

Software monitors heart rate, breathing and blood oxygen without a single sensor touching the body — useful for police cells as well as hospital wards

In the autumn Mr Reid announced operation safeguard - which allows the use of police cells - as an emergency measure, and last month he reminded courts they should only be sending the most dangerous offenders to jail.

Read it again, I didn't condemn a whole country and also said they where small examples, and believe me, when you're thrown into a Nigerian police cell and not allowed to speak to anyone, it is far from a petty incident.

In response, Brian Dow, Director of External Affairs for Rethink Mental Illness, said: «It's scandalous that so many people going through a mental health crisis, including children, are being held in police cells because commissioners are failing to provide enough suitable «places of safety».

What is one minute a seedy strip club in New York's Chinatown is instantly transformed into the cabin of an aeroplane or the sterile claustrophobia of a Beijing police cell.

«The three suspects are currently in Police cells while the exhibits have been retained at the Police station to assist in the investigation and they will soon be arraigned for the appropriate sanctions to be given o them,» he added.

«There are more important things we want administrators involved in,» than policing cell phone possession, Mustaro added.

Five minutes after arriving in the former capital city of Almaty, Kazakhstan, I was being detained inside a windowless police cell.

at the ICA as part of the Tenderpixel 2014 shortlist, and at The Old Police Cells Museum in Brighton as part of «Sub-Cell: A View from Below» — it's been great to show that work again in contexts other than the final show.

Up to twice as many people suffering mental health problems are being detained in police cells rather than a more appropriate hospital environment.

Remarkably, Champion is now the Labour party's voice on domestic violence despite weeks ago admitting she was thrown in police cells after being accused of assault against her ex-husband.

After experiencing the unpleasant realities of a Nigerian police cell, he is rescued by Amaka, a Pam Grier-esque Blaxploitation heroine with a saintly streak.

The former Member of Parliament for Nkoranza North, Eric Amoateng is still locked up in police cells because he has failed to meet bail conditions.

Criminals will be held in police cells in an emergency measure introduced to deal with a bursting prison population, John Reid has announced.

Senator Jang was initially kept in a police cell as he awaits his arraignment but Justice Daniel Longji order him to be remanded in prison after the Wednesday, May 16, arraignment in court.

Speaking in the vehicle that was conveying him to the police cells after the court order, Daniel Asiedu indicated that he has changed from his old ways.

There are also SMART goals like an end to police cells being used as a place of safety in cases of mental health in children (by 2016) and for adults in all but exceptional circumstances (by the end of the next parliament).

If a defendant isn't remanded in custody or held in a police cell they appear to have no option but order that the charge be paid.

The manifesto, produced in partnership with Young Minds and the Royal College of Psychiatrists, calls for better quality crisis care for young people, and for an end to the practice of children being held in police cells.

It's a national disgrace that thousands of people with severe mental illness end up in police cells each year, because there is no proper crisis care in their communities.

Every week we hear shocking stories about children being held in police cells, or sent hundreds of miles away from home for care, because the right support isn't available in their own community.

A new report by HMIC has warned that many people — including children and young people — experiencing mental health problems are being held in police cells, because of the shortage of appropriate crisis care services available across the country.

In January prisoner numbers topped 80,000, forcing hundreds of prisoners to be held in emergency accommodation in police cells.

The Home Secretary Theresa May has today revealed plans to change the Mental Health Act to stop children and young people with mental illness being detained in police cells.

«The select committee proposes changing the law so that police cells can no longer be used as a «place of safety», but that alone won't fix these problems.

It also proposes amending the Mental Health Act 1983, so that police cells are no longer stated as a place of safety for those detained under section 136.

Journalists, including myself, were barred from approaching the scene, and the 145 Fortnums demonstrators were kept in police cells all night.

A Ministry of Justice spokesperson maintained that court cells are only used as a last resort when prison and police cells are «exhausted».

As a result, Mr Reid has ordered the implementation of Operation Safeguard, which was last used in 2002 and will see sentenced criminals held in police cells.

There has been a 13-fold increase in the number of prisoners being held in police cells, it emerged last night.

«Six months in Whitehall passes a lot quicker than 28 days in a police cell without knowing why,» said Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti.

The reforms are also motivated by concerns that «vulnerable people are being subject to detention, including in police cells, unnecessarily» amid rising numbers of people being detained or «sectioned» under the Mental Health Act, according to the Tory leader.

So instead of landing the perpetrator an overnight stay in a police cell and an appearance before city magistrates, this particular prank won the 2007 Turner prize - and earned its creator an instant # 25,000.»

Damage is not limited to permanent damage, so smearing mud on the walls of a police cell may be criminal damage.

The incident was alleged to have occurred while F was detained in a police cell.

On an appeal by the prosecution under s 58, CJA 2003, the Court of Appeal ruled that a police cell was not a home, nor was it living accommodation where a person lived.

He was then detained in a police cell and was eventually released without charge.

In addition, without asking officers to be conversant with the details of court rulings, it is not too much to expect that police would be familiar with the settled law that routine strip searches are inappropriate where the individual is being held for a short time in police cells, is not mingling with the general prison population, and where the police have no legitimate concerns that the individual is concealing weapons that could be used to harm themselves or others: Golden, at para. 97.

2013 YKCA 11 Coroners — Inquests and fatality inquiries Silverfox died on December 2, 2008, after being held in a police cell used for holding intoxicated people, commonly called the «drunk tank», for 13 1/2 hours.

His remarks follow the news last week that the prison population has soared to the record level 81,474, including 339 in police cells.

She was arrested at the same time as the perpetrator and locked up in a police cell adjoining his.

He died the most inhuman of deaths: without family around, on a cold, concrete floor of a police cell.