Poll: Released from custody without charge

[bloodiedathame]

Say they were arrested at 19:00 on day 1. It takes a while to get them to custody and then booked in. Custody clock starts at 20:00.

Police still need to get a statement from the aggrieved before interview. For whatever reason they can't get hold of the aggrieved until the morning. So 07:00 comes around and they've been in custody for 11 hours already. They get the statement which takes say 3 hours including allocation of officers, travel, writing the statement and adding it to the system. We're now at 14 hours on the PACE clock. It takes a couple of hours for the solicitor to turn up and the interview takes and hour. We're at 17 hours. Another 2.5 hours is taken up by calling CPS Direct for advice where they say they won't authorise any charges and 30 mins to process the release. There we have it: 20 hours in custody.

Get back to work captain helpful.

 

[cheesyboy]

Say they were arrested at 19:00 on day 1. It takes a while to get them to custody and then booked in. Custody clock starts at 20:00.

Police still need to get a statement from the aggrieved before interview. For whatever reason they can't get hold of the aggrieved until the morning. So 07:00 comes around and they've been in custody for 11 hours already. They get the statement which takes say 3 hours including allocation of officers, travel, writing the statement and adding it to the system. We're now at 14 hours on the PACE clock. It takes a couple of hours for the solicitor to turn up and the interview takes and hour. We're at 17 hours. Another 2.5 hours is taken up by calling CPS Direct for advice where they say they won't authorise any charges and 30 mins to process the release. There we have it: 20 hours in custody.

Sounds ok. But it still begs the question of why OP would still be worried about being on the hook for it.

 

[CaptainComedy]

time to buy a soft back scrub op 30 years of alpha loving

 

[DaleTheWhale]

Did they drive over wet tarmac?

 

[Avenged7Fold]

Poor show OP, you should go into more details:

Is the car:

New

Registered on some other persons name/business

I guess after being held for 20 hours, it is probably not newly bought and it does belong to someone else from a legal point of view, since it does not take long to check to see if the owner has changed very recently.

Here is my guess:

OP works at one of those airport car storage places where the employees all love going for little joy rides and showing off cars they never owned to all the birds they will never bang. One day, he got done.


For future reference, OP should skip the whole 'my friend' and just use SWIM. Neither can be used to avoid incriminating yourself but at least you dont sound so desperate to keep things hush hush.

 

[captain dilbert]

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[mrk]

Sound incredibly guilty to me.

 

[Mynight]

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If you cant take the punishment dont do the crime.

 

[Fubsy]

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No they won't.

 

[Hitman_Leon]

And there we have it: 20 hours in custody.

Can't you just add feet to concrete anymore and and take them swimming if they 'look guilty'

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Your case in this instance is almost as weak as your 'innocent friend case' in your OP

 

[Jono8]

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Edit - lol at the extra poll option

 

[FortuitousFluke]

The op presumably misplaced his sense of humour when fleeing the scene of the crime.

 

[physichull]

This thread is a right load of old ****.

There is obviously something the OP isn't telling us.

 

[Armageus]

The op presumably misplaced his sense of humour when fleeing the scene of the crime.

Voted ban

 

[Uther]

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Name change to 'Guilty m'lud' and ban.

 

[Tefal]

The vehicle legitimately belongs to my friend. I suppose is the more relevant question would be can the police subsequently accuse my friend of any other offence given that police have only 24 hours to investigate and bring a charge? Or is the case legally consigned to history now the time has expired? In the time my friend was held the police had every opportunity to investigate all avenues of crime and couldn't bring charge due to lack of evidence is the outcome that is assumed.

Definitly drugs in the car.

The police dont only have 24 hours to investigate.

If the car has been seized and is seqrched and they find soemthing or it turns out the car has been caught by a speed camera or used for any other crime they can charge him with that with no time limit

 

[FrenchTart]

Voted ban too. Totes hope that option doesn't win though!


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[LOAM]

Once you've been arrested and freed without charge you are a freeman of the land, free to commit whatever crime you wish without recourse. When I say you, I mean your friend obviously.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

There seems to have been a surge in voting

 

[JBuk]

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Please don't cry