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01 January 2008

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Police Road Traffic Accidents: a study of cases involving serious and fatal injuries, Maria Docking, Tom Bucke, Kerry Grace and Helen Dady. Paper 7 (IPCC Research and Statistics Series) September 2007, pp84. This IPCC study covers public accidents involving the police between the period from April 2004 to September 2006. The IPCC makes a number of recommendations including that data recorders be fitted to all police vehicles and video monitoring cameras be fitted to the vehicles of specialist traffic officers. Further recommendations address police tactics, guidelines and response. Available at: http://www.ippc.gov.uk/rti_report_11_9_07.pdf

Police station law and practice update, Ed Cape. Legal Action October 2007, pp. 10-14. This is the latest in a bi-annual series that covers developments in law and policing affecting police stations.

Annual Report 2006-2007. Forum for Preventing Deaths in Custody, 21.9.07, pp 35. This is the FPDC's first annual report. It says almost 600 people die in custody (police cells, prisons, secure hospitals and other approved premises) each year and raises concerns about the number of mentally ill people in custody, suggesting that they would be better looked after in psychiatric care. The report is available at: http://www.ppo.goc.uk/download/reports/Forum_for_Preventing_Death9s_v.4.pdf

Police misconduct and the law, Stephen Cragg, Tony Murphy and Heather Williams. Legal Action October 2007, pp. 17-22. This piece examines recent case law developments in police misconduct law, covering the following areas: failure to protect victims of crime; compensation for wrongful convictions; Enhanced Criminal Record Certificates and the police and inquests.

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