A friend of mine recently talked to me about ‘bearing witness’.  He writes letters for Amnesty sometimes, sending them to people incarcerated thousands of miles away. He spoke […]

  A recent episode of “24 Hours in Police Custody” broadcast a murder investigation, including the early arrest of a detainee. Whereas he initially appeared to be a credible suspect, […]

Quality Assurance – exciting term isn’t it? Made to make us think of audits, paperwork and for me possible tangents to alternative careers in biscuit factories (oh what […]

Introduction I hadn’t planned to write this blog now; I had intended to write one on the role of Independent Custody Visitors (ICVs). Visiting suspected terrorist detainees (also […]