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Committee of Inquiry into Police Interrogation Procedures in Northern Ireland (Bennett...
Catalogue reference: BS 5
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BS 5
Records of the Committee of Inquiry into Police Interrogation Procedures in Northern Ireland (Bennett Committee) including its report.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BS 5
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Title (The name of the record)
- Committee of Inquiry into Police Interrogation Procedures in Northern Ireland (Bennett Committee): Records
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1964-1979
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of the Committee of Inquiry into Police Interrogation Procedures in Northern Ireland (Bennett Committee) including its report.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Committee of Inquiry into Police Interrogation Procedures in Northern Ireland, 1978-1979
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 131 files and magnetic tape
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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- Topics
- Ireland
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Committee of Inquiry into Police Interrogation Procedures in Northern Ireland was appointed in June 1978 by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Roy Mason, to examine police procedures and practice in Northern Ireland relating to the interrogation of persons suspected of scheduled offences; to examine the operation of the present procedures for dealing with complaints relating to the conduct of the Police in the course of the process of interrogation; and to report and make recommendations.
The committee was composed of Judge H G Bennett, Chairman, Sir James Houghton, Professor John Marshall, Nigel Varney, Secretary and Noel Cornick, Deputy Secretary (Belfast).
The report of the committee was presented on 16 February 1979 and was published as Cmnd. 7497 in March 1979.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- The report of the Committee of Inquiry into Police Interrogation Procedures in Northern Ireland (Bennett Committee) was published as Cmnd. 7497.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3021/
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