Download copies of the reports on the joint inspection visits of police suites and view ICVA’s Annual Report, bringing you up to date with developments in the organisation over the past year... Read More

ICVA’s annual conference takes place on 14 November 2009 at the Ramada Hotel, Granby St in Leicester, and will be attended by almost 300 delegates. Content will range from safety and dignity in police detention to extending the role of ICVs... Read More

Behind the scenes, we are working on exciting changes to bring the ICVA website up to date, with a stylish new design and fresh content soon to be revealed... Read More

ICVA’s superb new suite of training materials is now available. The training package includes a training DVD, Trainer’s Manual and a CD containing a student workbook. This will be sent to all police authorities for a set fee, significantly improving the ability of police authorities to produce their own copies as and when required, or distributed to ICVs via PDF where appropriate... Read More

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has launched an innovative pilot Mobile Processing Unit (MPU), developed by the MPS Transport Operational Command Unit, in conjunction with Transport for London. Principally it is designed to provide equivalent processing facilities to those in custody suites, for compliant and low risk prisoners, with individual seating areas rather than cells... Read More

Some forthcoming events you will want to know about... Read More

ICVA’s next annual conference takes place on 14 November 2009 in the Ramada Hotel, Granby St, Leicester. Everyone involved in custody visiting is welcome to attend for a series of presentations and lively debate on a range of topical issues, ranging from the S136 Mental Health Act to developments in custody suite design... Read More

An official welcome to ICVA’s new chair, David Wood. A long standing member of the executive committee and former vice chair, David is the current lead member for Custody and Race & Diversity at Suffolk Police Authority and has been a Suffolk County Councilor since 2000... Read More

ICVA’s Scottish Annual Conference was kindly hosted by the Northern Joint Police Board at the Highland Council Headquarters, Inverness in November 2008 and chaired by the Convener, Mr Norman Macleod... Read More