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PART 5STAFF OF SHORT-TERM HOLDING FACILITIES

Contact with former detained persons or the friends and relatives of detained or former detained persons

43.  A member of staff must not, without the authorisation of the Secretary of State, communicate with any person who the member of staff knows to be—

(a)a person formerly detained at a short-term holding facility or removal centre,

(b)a relative or friend of a person detained at a short-term holding facility or removal centre, or

(c)a relative or friend of a person formerly detained at a short-term holding facility or removal centre,

in such a way as could be seen to compromise that member of staff in the execution of their duty or the safety, security or control of the short-term holding facility.