ABSTRACT
Section 30 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) (already discussed above, Chapter 3, p 76) provides that, following the arrest of a person by the police away from a police station or the taking into custody of a suspect arrested by a non-police officer (a store detective, for example), there is a duty to convey the suspect to a police station as soon as practicable. Normally, that police station will be one designated for the purposes of detaining suspects, although there are exceptions, as discussed earlier. What is a designated police station, as distinct from one which is not?
