Latest changes – control, restraint and searches

Control, restraints and searches > Principles of using force in custody. 

• Link to Faculty of Forensic and Legal medicine (FFLM) guidance on managing ABD in custody was out of date and replaced with updated link. Title of document in APP also amended to match the title of the linked document. 
• Updated link - ABD-Guidelines-on-Management-in-Police-Custody-Oct-2022.pdf (fflm.ac.uk)

Control, restraints and searches > The prone position and positional asphyxia

• Link to 'common principles for safer restraint' was out of date and new link updated. 
• Updated link - Common Principles for Safer Restraint - FFLM

Under the heading 'Conduct of searches', the sentence below in bold/italics was deleted at the request of custody SPM. This has caused confusion for officers/trainers as the information relates to strip searches and not those at the custody desk.

Officers and staff should carry out searches with respect and dignity. They should do so in an area where the detainee can neither be seen by anyone who does not need to be present nor by a member of the opposite sex.

Addition of section - The documenting of strip searches in police custody.

Amendments made to Conduct of searches – When might a strip search become an intimate search? 

Amendments made following a court ruling.

Replaced middle section of medical assessment section.

Out of date documents replaced and new supporting documents added.

New guidance from FFLM on management of those subject to Taser.

Removal of outdated link to information on excited delirium.

Addition of information to clarify intimate searches beneath heading 'When might a strip search become an intimate search?'