"Police custody" refers to the situation when a person is taken into the care and control of the police. It means that the person is detained by the police and will remain under their supervision until further decisions are made, such as releasing them or moving them to a different location.
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This time, she was held
in police custody for the maximum duration allowable for this kind of case — 23 days.
However, if you are taken
into police custody upon arrest then you are required to have a bail hearing regardless of what the charge is.
Formal charges will be entered against the accused and it will be determined whether the accused will be released
from police custody pending trial.
He is currently in
police custody with 4 others who have also been charged with illegal possession of arms.
If bail is denied the offender will be held in
police custody until the next court date in the case.
The victim survived the brutal encounter with police and was placed
under police custody while recovering in an area hospital.
Although there is a high number of young people who go
through police custody, the percentage that we, as custody visitors, meet and talk to is small.
Essentially this means that an individual who fails to comply with the conditions laid out to them upon their release
from police custody will be charged with an additional offence for such failure.
In that time, other states and territories have recorded 11 Indigenous deaths
in police custody.
The service is a telephone hotline that provides Indigenous prisoners in
police custody with personal and legal advice.
Some seven supporters of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), suspected to have played various roles in disturbances in the Sissala West District, have been remanded into
police custody after appearing before a Wa Magistrate Court.
The Agogo Magistrate Court has remanded a 26 - year - old man into
police custody for allegedly defiling a minor at Dampong in the Asante - Akim South District.
It's a harrowing affair that took place on March 11, 2005: Nichols (David Oyelowo) escaped
police custody at an Atlanta courthouse, shooting 3 people point blank and carjacking two cars, inciting a city - wide manhunt.
The details: In this fact - based drama, widow, single mother, and recovering drug addict Ashley Smith (Kate Mara) is taken hostage in her apartment by fugitive Brian Nichols (David Oyelowo), who's on the run after
escaping police custody en route to a court appearance and killing four people.
The police spokesman confirmed that all the six suspects that escaped from lawful
police custody on March 28 had been re-arrested.
Meanwhile 34 of the suspects were on Monday evening remanded into
police custody by the Accra Central District Court, reports Emmanuel Ebo Hawkson
Garner, a black Staten Island man, died in
police custody last July after he was placed in a chokehold, a prohibited maneuver.
Sulyman Abdullah, a senior magistrate in his ruling said Melaye should be remanded in
police custody till June 11 but the Inspector - General of Police must provide essentials for his health.
The settlement addresses Bland's death while in
police custody as well as changes to jail procedures in Waller County.
Baptist Press: 48 Chinese Christians detained New Year's Day Beijing authorities detained 48 members of a large persecuted house church on New Year's Day, marking a total of more than 1,000 church members who have been taken into
police custody during the church's 38 weeks of attempting to hold outdoor worship services.
The city's top cop went on the warpath Monday after a 23 - year - old woman got out of her handcuffs and escaped from
police custody over the weekend — the fourth suspect...
Janga had on March 28 announced that six suspects, including Kabiru Seidu a.k.a Osama and Nuhu Salisu, who had named Sen. Dino Melaye as their gun supplier escaped from
lawful police custody in Lokoja.
The joint committee on human rights also questions plans to extend the time a terror suspect can be held in
police custody without charge from its current limit of 14 days, saying it has yet to see evidence to justify this.
The Senate also held hearings on the issue of criminal justice reforms following the death of Eric Garner, the Staten Island man whose death in
police custody led to protests in New York and around the country.
Keene must find a way to get Carden into
police custody again before he gets killed, either by the assassins, or the crafty Carden himself.
Mr Birks was the senior officer involved in the arrest of Sean Rigg, who died in
police custody back in 2008.
The news story about the Maryland couple whose children were temporarily placed in
police custody because they espouse «free — range» parenting caused tremendous controversy.
The group of relatives, which included the mother of Eric Garner, the Staten Island man whose death in
police custody set off a series of protests in New York and around the country, arrived at the Capitol demanding that the governor create a special prosecutor.
Other issues concerning legislators include perennials campaign financing, ethics, and education, plus police reform issues ignited by the Eric Garner incident in New York City: his death in
police custody sparked national outrage.
The families of several minorities who died in
police custody recently met with Mr. Cuomo to push him to back the Schneiderman measure.
Questions - Arab Spring and religious minorities,
police custody ethnicities, EU scrutiny of member state budgets Legislation - protection of freedoms bill
I know many of you will be aware of the current liaison and diversion pilots which are running this year — testing different ways to ensure mentally ill offenders held in
police custody get referred into appropriate treatment and care.
It
claims police custody officers rely too heavily on the advice of health professionals and there is evidence of poor presentation and follow through of suspects» rights to legal advice.
Despite the assertions of elected officials who said Eric Garner would not have died in
police custody if he were not a black man, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said he does not believe race played a role in the man's death.
«Two other members of the gang are still at large, while one of their wives is in
police custody helping with the investigations,» DSP Aniamaka said.
Controversy, however arose as to under
which police custody should the senator be kept, even as his counsel was heard expressing fears that his client «will be killed», if remanded anywhere in Kogi State.
He was taken to New York Presbyterian - Weill Cornell Medical Center, but was expected to be discharged into
police custody later Wednesday morning, Bratton said.
It also came as Schneiderman opens his first case under the new special prosecutor powers in the death of Raynette Turner, who died in Mount
Vernon police custody last month.