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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/48/section/11</dc:identifier><dc:title>Police and Justice Act 2006</dc:title><dc:description>An Act to establish a National Policing Improvement Agency; to make provision about police forces and police authorities and about police pensions; to make provision about police powers and about the powers and duties of community support officers, weights and measures inspectors and others; to make provision about the supply to the police and others of information contained in registers of death; to make further provision for combatting crime and disorder; to make further provision about certain inspectorates; to amend Part 12 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003; to amend the Computer Misuse Act 1990; to make provision about the forfeiture of indecent images of children; to provide for the conferring of functions on the Independent Police Complaints Commission in relation to the exercise of enforcement functions by officials involved with immigration and asylum; to amend the Extradition Act 2003; to make further provision about the use of live links in criminal proceedings; and for connected purposes.</dc:description><dc:type>text</dc:type><dc:format>text/xml</dc:format><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:publisher>Statute Law Database</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2025-09-16</dc:modified><dc:contributor>Expert Participation</dc:contributor><dct:valid>2025-09-10</dct:valid>
					
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          <Strong>Part 2</Strong>
        </Number><Title>Powers of police <Abbreviation Expansion="Et cetera" xml:lang="la">etc</Abbreviation></Title><Pblock DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/48/part/2/crossheading/police-powers" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2006/48/part/2/crossheading/police-powers" NumberOfProvisions="4" RestrictExtent="E+W" id="part-2-crossheading-police-powers" RestrictStartDate="2007-04-01"><Title><Emphasis>Police powers</Emphasis></Title><P1group RestrictStartDate="2007-01-15"><Title>Power to detain pending <Acronym Expansion="Director of Public Prosecutions">DPP</Acronym>'s decision about charging</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/48/section/11" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2006/48/section/11" id="section-11"><Pnumber PuncAfter=""><CommentaryRef Ref="key-57a7eeaf96d4413e7674f1187f44e26f"/>11</Pnumber><P1para><Text>In section 37 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (duties of custody officer before charge), in paragraph (a) of subsection (7)

			(officer's duties when he determines that there is sufficient evidence to charge), for  “shall be released without charge and on bail for the purpose” there is substituted</Text><BlockAmendment TargetClass="primary" TargetSubClass="unknown" Context="main" Format="default"><Text>shall be—
                </Text><P4><Pnumber>i</Pnumber><P4para><Text>released without charge and on bail, or</Text></P4para></P4><P4><Pnumber>ii</Pnumber><P4para><Text>kept in police detention,</Text></P4para></P4><Text>for the purpose
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