Section 73 | Use Of Video And Telephone Links For Decisions About Detention | Criminal Justice And Police Act 2001 C16

73 Use of video and telephone links for decisions about detention

Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (2001 c 16) | Legislation

Detention and arrest

73 Use of video and telephone links for decisions about detention

(1) The 1984 Act shall be amended as follows.

(2) After section 40 there shall be inserted—

“40��

Use of telephone for review under s 40

(1) This section applies, notwithstanding anything in section 40 above, where in the case of a person who has been arrested but not charged—

(a) it is not reasonably practicable for an officer of at least the rank of inspector to be present in the police station where that person is held to carry out any review of that person's detention that is required by subsection (1)(b) of that section; and

(b) the review is not one which regulations under section 45A below authorise to be carried out using video-conferencing facilities, or is one which it is not reasonably practicable, in the circumstances, to carry out using any such facilities.

(2) The review may be carried out by an officer of at least the rank of inspector who has access to a means of communication by telephone to persons in the police station where the arrested person is held.

(3) Where any review is carried out under