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Commissioning investigations and management reviews

Detention services order 02/2020 on investigations into incidents that happen in detention.

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Detention services order 02/2020: commissioning of investigations

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Home Office detention services order on investigations and management reviews into incidents that happen when people are detained.

It covers:

  • the differences between a management review and an independent investigation
  • when each is used
  • what happens when article 2 or 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights might have been breached

Updates to this page

Published 23 December 2014
Last updated 15 July 2020 + show all updates
  1. Updated the document to a newer version.

  2. First published.

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