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Medication in Police Custody

Author(s) -

A. Busuttil,

N W Wallace

Publication year - 1990

Publication title -

journal of the royal society of medicine

Language(s) - Uncategorized

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38

H-Index - 81

eISSN - 1758-1095

pISSN - 0141-0768

DOI - 10.1177/014107689008300911

Subject(s) - obligation , variety (cybernetics) , medicine , welfare , period (music) , psychology , law , medical emergency , criminology , family medicine , psychiatry , political science , computer science , artificial intelligence , physics , acoustics

Police Officers have an obligation to look after the welfare of the persons detained by them. As such persons may require to be given medication on a regular basis during their period of custody which may last a few days, the Police are also responsible for ensuring that this takes place. To identify the extent of this requirement, a survey was carried out by questionnaire in Edinburgh over a period of one month. Thirty-five per cent [corrected] of the 127 detainees were carrying with them a variety of drugs or required to be given medication on a regular basis. The problems associated with this practice are discussed.

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