PART 8

COMMUNICATIONS

PRISON VISITS

Visits by police constables
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1
Subject to paragraph (2), a police constable or a police member of the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency or, as the case may be, the Director General of that Agency, may visit or see a prisoner for one or more of the following purposes—
a
to interview the prisoner, provided the prisoner is willing to be interviewed;
b
to identify the prisoner;
c
to charge the prisoner with an offence.
2
A police constable or a police member of the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency may only visit or see a prisoner under paragraph (1) on production of the written authority of—
a
a procurator fiscal or a Chief Constable, in the case of a police constable; or
b
the Director General of the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency, in the case of a police member of the agency.
3
A visit to a prisoner in terms of paragraph (1)(a) may take place in such area of the prison and under such conditions as the Governor may specify except that such a visit must take place—
a
within the sight of an officer; and
b
outwith the hearing of an officer unless the prisoner or the visitor requests otherwise.