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Operational advice for preventing suicide and managing risk for those held for sexual offences can be found in the following documents:
Suicide prevention and risk management for perpetrators of child sexual exploitation and indecent images of children (IIOC) (PDF, 292KB).
Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine (2024) Care of suspects of sexual assault in police custody