The team at ICVA would like to extend a warm welcome to the new Home Secretary, Theresa May and Minister of State responsible for the police, Nick Herbert - we hope to invite them to speak to us soon...Read More

One of the last duties of police minister, David Hanson was to approve the revision to the Codes of Practice for independent custody visiting. The new Codes of Practice were issued to all police authorities in the first week of April 2010...Read More

The Independent Advisory Panel has launched a new website which it hopes will be used as a resource for those working within the different custodial sectors to share good practice and learning on preventing and reducing the number of deaths in custody...Read More

The Chief Inspectors of H.M Inspectorate of Prisons and H.M Inspectorate of Constabulary published inspection reports of police custody in Wiltshire, Cumbria and Warwickshire... Read More

The Chief Inspectors of Prisons and Constabulary have published the report of a joint inspection of police custody suites in Leicestershire, as part of the regular programme of police custody inspections... Read More