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The Mental Health Act 1983 (Places of Safety) Regulations 2017

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Requirements when a police station is used as a place of safety

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4.—(1) A custody officer at the police station must ensure that—

(a)the welfare of the detained adult (“D”) is checked by a healthcare professional at least once every thirty minutes, and any appropriate action is taken for the treatment and care of D, and

(b)so far as is reasonably practicable, a healthcare professional is present and available to D throughout the period in which D is detained at the police station.

(2) Subject to regulation 7, in any case where either or both of the requirements in paragraph (1)(a) and (b) is not met, the custody officer must arrange for D to be taken to another place of safety(1).

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See sections 135(3A) and 136(3) of the Act for the power to transfer a person to another place of safety.

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