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UK: Home Affairs Select Committee report: Police Bail

20 March 2015

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See the full text: Police Bail (pdf) - Stop shaming suspects and holding them in indefinite limbo, say MPs: Police bail, or pre-charge bail, is a tool that allows the police to continue an investigation without detaining the suspect in custody:

Keith Vaz MP, Chairman of the Committee, said: "A reform of police bail is long overdue. The police only need to have reasonable suspicion that an offence has taken place to arrest someone. It is unacceptable that, even with little evidence, people can be kept on bail for months on end and then suddenly be told that no further action will be taken against them without providing any information as to why."

and see: Suspects should stay anonymous until charged, MPs say (Guardian, link)

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