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Article: POLICE COMPLAINTS AUTHORITY: Police Complaints Authority calls for improvements in care and custody
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- June 26, 1998
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M2 PRESSWIRE-26 June 1998-POLICE COMPLAINTS AUTHORITY: Police Complaints Authority calls for improvements in care and custody (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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-- PCA Annual Report to Parliament 1997/98 published
"Notwithstanding the fact that the detention record of police in England and Wales is good, there is no doubt that a number of the 56 people who died in police custody last year should still be alive," said independent Police Complaints Authority chairman Mr Peter Moorhouse today.
He was speaking, in London, at the launch of the Authority's annual report to Parliament for the year ending on 31 March 1998.
"Each death ...