Part 1 Treatment of Persons Detained under section 27

SCHEDULE 6 Detention under section 27

Section 27

Part 1 Treatment of Persons Detained under section 27

Place of detention

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(1)     The Secretary of State may designate places at which persons may be detained under section 27.

(2)     The power in sub-paragraph (1) may be exercised only in relation to land or a building in the United Kingdom which is owned or controlled by a police force.

(3)     In this Schedule a reference to a police station includes a reference to any place which the Secretary of State has designated under sub-paragraph (1) as a place where a person may be detained under section 27.

(4)     A constable who arrests a person under section 27 must take the person as soon as is reasonably practicable to the police station which the constable considers the most appropriate.

(5)     Where a person is arrested

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