Notice of rights and entitlements: a person's rights in police detention
The notice of rights and entitlements sets out a person's rights while in police detention and is issued in accordance with the Police and Criminal Evidence Act Code of Practice C, paragraph 3.2.
Your rights while in police detention
The revised English language version was introduced on 21 August 2019. The changes are highlighted in grey in the English language version. Until translations become available, detainees will need to be told about the changes through an interpreter.
You can find the at the the national archives.
You can also read the full Police and Criminal Evidence Act codes of practice
| Language (English) | Language (language specific) | Text (PDF) |
|---|---|---|
| English | English | English text |
| English: easy read | English: easy read | Easy read text |
| Welsh | Cymraeg | Welsh text |
| Albanian | Shqip | Albanian text |
| Amharic | ???? | Amharic text |
| Arabic | ??????? | Arabic text |
| Bengali | ????? | Bengali text |
| Bulgarian | български | Bulgarian text |
| Chinese simplified (Mandarin) | 简体字 | Chinese simplified text |
| Chinese traditional (Cantonese) | 繁体字 | Chinese traditional text |
| Croatian | Hrvatski | Croatian text |
| Czech | ?esky | Czech text |
| Danish | Dansk | Danish text |
| Dari | ???? | Dari text |
| Dutch | Nederlands | Dutch text |
| Estonian | Eesti keel | Estonian text |
| Farsi | ????? | Farsi text |
| Finnish | Suomi | Finnish text |
| French | Fran?ais | French text |
| Georgian | ??????? | Georgian text |
| German | Deutsch | German text |
| Greek | ελληνικ? | Greek text |
| Gujarati | ??????? | Gujarati text |
| Hausa | ?????? | Hausa text |
| Hindi | ?????? | Hindi text |
| Hungarian | Magyar | Hungarian text |
| Igbo | As?s? Igbo | Igbo text |
| Italian | Italiano | Italian text |
| Korean | ???/??? | Korean text |
| Kurdish Kurmanji | Kurmanc? | Kurdish Kurmanji text |
| Kurdish Sorani | ?????? ??????? | Kurdish Sorani text |
| Latvian | Latvie?u | Latvian text |
| Lithuanian | Lietuvi? | Lithuanian text |
| Maltese | Malti | Maltese text |
| Norwegian | Norsk | Norwegian text |
| Pashto | ???? | Pashto text |
| Polish | Polski | Polish text |
| Portuguese | 笔辞谤迟耻驳耻ê蝉 | Portuguese text |
| Punjabi | 笔补苍箩ā产ī | Punjabi text |
| Romanian | Rom?n? | Romanian text |
| Russian | 笔усский | Russian text |
| Shona | chiShona | Shona text |
| Slovak | Sloven?ina | Slovak text |
| Slovenian | Sloven??ina | Slovenian text |
| Somali | Soomaaliga | Somali text |
| Spanish | Espa?ol | Spanish text |
| Swedish | Svenska | Swedish text |
| Tamil | ????? | Tamil text |
| Thai | ??? | Thai text |
| Tigrinya | ???? | Tigrinya text |
| Turkish | 罢ü谤办?别 | Turkish text |
| Twi | t??i | Twi text |
| Ukranian | укра??нська | Ukranian text |
| Urdu | ?????? | Urdu text |
| Vietnamese | Ti?ng Vi?t | Vietnamese text |
| Yoruba | 驰辞谤ù产á | Yoruba text |
Updates to this page
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Updated to show that a new English language version was introduced on 21 August 2019.
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New version of notice of rights of entitlements published.
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New translations published.
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First published.