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PACE, Disclosure and Code of Practice
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- 1PACEPACE stands for the Police and Criminal Evidence act of1984.
PACE codes of practice provide the core framework of police powers and safeguards around stop and search,
arrest, detention, investigation, identification and interviewing detainees. (Remember the difference between
interrogation and interview – This links back to your lecture on cognitive interviewing.
Be aware that legislation updates regularly via “white papers” – you need to keep abreast of changes in the codes of practice.
In April 2003, PACE codes A-E which had previously been revised came into force.
• In November 2011 a consultation was published which resulted in further revisions to codes
C and H.
• The revision of code G comes into effect in November 2012.
• It is the investigation, identification and interviewing regulations that are of primary concern
to the forensic scientist.
Link to the government website is here: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/60/contents
(But I’ll cover this in a summative form). - 2PACE – Part I, subsection 3 – duty to make record concerning searches.Whilst this subsection particularly comments of a police constables duty, I have chosen to highlight this
particular subsection as it is one of the codes that forms the basis of the Forensic regulators codes of practice. (I shall highlight several others throughout).
• This Particular subsection takes about the requirement for contemporaneous notes. - 3PACE – Part I, subsection 3 – duty to make record concerning searches. 3 Duty to make records concerning searches(1)Where a constable has carried out a search in the exercise of any such power as is mentioned
in section 2(1) above, other than a search—
(a)under section 6 below; or
(b)under section 27(2) of the M1Aviation Security Act 1982, [F1a record of the search shall be
made] in writing unless it is not practicable to do so.
[F2(2)If a record of a search is required to be made by subsection (1) above—
(a)in a case where the search results in a person being arrested and taken to a police station, the
constable shall secure that the record is made as part of the person's custody record;
(b)in any other case, the constable shall make the record on the spot, or, if that is not practicable, as soon as practicable after the completion of the search.] - 4—
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