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UK: Hundreds of children 'detained in police cells'

26 January 2014

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"Hundreds of children in England and Wales have been held under the Mental Health Act and locked in police cells because officers did not have anywhere else to take them, the BBC has learned. There were 305 detentions of under-18s in the first 11 months of 2013, Radio 4's the World This Weekend found. Some were detained for more than 24 hours, according to data released under Freedom of Information laws."

See the article: Hundreds of children 'detained in police cells' (BBC News, link)

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