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Protection of Freedoms Bill

Proceeding contribution from Lord Harris of Haringey (Labour) in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 31 January 2012. It occurred during Debate on bills on Protection of Freedoms Bill.
To clarify further, presumably part of the difficulty here is that this is an inadvertent error by the police, because they have taken somebody under Section 136 to a place of safety which in this instance has turned out to be a cell in a police station. Is not the real problem here, and the reason why, presumably, custody officers have then made this mistake, that there is an inadequate supply of places of safety in more appropriate accommodation? That is a fundamental issue. If the Government were to address that, the chance of this arising would become far less.

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Reference

734 c1503 

Session

2010-12

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber
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