Collection

Detention services orders

Detention services orders for Home Office officials.

Published 23 January 2014
Last updated 13 February 2018 — see all updates
From:
Home Office and Immigration Enforcement

This collection contains detention services orders. These are instructions outlining procedures to be followed by Home Office staff.

Documents

  1. Accommodation standards

    • Guidance

  2. Age dispute cases in immigration detention centres

    • Guidance

  3. Caring for and managing transsexual detainees

    • Guidance

  4. Commissioning investigations and management reviews

    • Guidance

  5. Considering detainee placement

    • Guidance

  6. Deaths in detention

    • Guidance

  7. Detainee custody officer certification

    • Guidance

  8. Detainee transferable document and warrant of detention form

    • Guidance

  9. Detainees who refuse to eat or drink

    • Guidance

  10. Detention and escorting: safeguarding children

    • Guidance

  11. Detention Rule 35 process

    • Guidance

  12. Detention services operating standards manual

    • Guidance

  13. Escorting detainees with cash

    • Guidance

  14. Extremism and radicalisation

    • Guidance

  15. Families in detention: outside activities

    • Guidance

  16. Families in immigration removal centres

    • Guidance

  17. Fingerprinting detainees

    • Guidance

  18. Gatwick pre departure accommodation arrangements

    • Guidance

  19. Handling complaints in immigration removal centres

    • Guidance

  20. Internet access for detainees

    • Guidance

  21. Investigating incidents in immigration detention centres

    • Guidance

  22. Lesbian, gay and bisexual detainees

    • Guidance

  23. Management of adults at risk in immigration detention

    • Guidance

  24. Managing detainees' money over £1000

    • Guidance

  25. Managing property of detainees in the UK

    • Guidance

  26. Marriage or civil partnership of detainees

    • Guidance

  27. Medical appointments outside the detention estate

    • Guidance

  28. Medical emergency response codes

    • Guidance

  29. Medical information sharing

    • Guidance

  30. Mobile phones and cameras in immigration removal centres

    • Guidance

  31. Notification of removal directions to detainees

    • Guidance

  32. Operating standards for the detention services escort process

    • Guidance

  33. Paid work for detainees

    • Guidance

  34. Person escort record (PER)

    • Guidance

  35. Pregnant women in detention

    • Guidance

  36. Reception and induction checklist and supplementary guidance

    • Guidance

  37. Recording attempted self harm in detention centres

    • Guidance

  38. Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA)

    • Guidance

  39. Release of detainees from immigration detention

    • Guidance

  40. Removal from association and temporary confinement

    • Guidance

  41. Removing hidden blades from detainees

    • Guidance

  42. Removing electronic tags from detainees

    • Guidance

  43. Reporting and communicating out of hour incidents

    • Guidance

  44. Risk assessment: part c

    • Guidance

  45. Room sharing risk assessment (RSRA)

    • Guidance

  46. Searching detainees at removal centres

    • Guidance

  47. Security information reports

    • Guidance

  48. Self harm reduction strategy

    • Guidance

  49. Surveillance camera systems

    • Guidance

  50. Travel warrants for detainees attending asylum courts

    • Guidance

  51. Unescorted domestic shuttle flights

    • Guidance

  52. Use of restraints for escorted moves

    • Guidance

  53. Using profits from shops in immigration removal centres

    • Guidance

  54. Visitors and visiting procedures for detainees

    • Guidance

  55. Wearing identity badges

    • Guidance

  56. Welfare provision in immigration removal centres

    • Guidance

  57. Women in detention

    • Guidance

  58. Working with independent monitoring boards

    • Guidance
Published 23 January 2014
Last updated 13 February 2018 + show all updates
  1. Added new detention services order 4/2017 on surveillance camera systems. Removed detention services order 2/2006 on releasing detainees by IS106 release orders, now superseded by new detention services order 1/2018 on the release of detainees from immigration detention.
  2. New DSO on Removal from association and temporary confinement.
  3. New guidance on Gatwick pre departure accommodation arrangements.
  4. New guidance added: management of adults at risk in immigration detention.
  5. New dentention service order on the detention rule 35 process.
  6. DSO 07/2016 "Use of restraints for escorted moves" added.
  7. DSO 06/2016 'Women in detention' added.
  8. DSO 04/2016 'Internet access for detainees' added.
  9. DSO 03/2016 'Considering detainee placement' added.
  10. Detention service order 02/2016 added on lesbian, gay and bisexual detainees.
  11. New dentention service order 1/16 on medical information sharing.
  12. Removal of routine dental appointments for detainees in removal centres guidance.
  13. New guidance on reporting and communicating incidents out of hours added.
  14. New detention service order (DSO) 4/2015 on unescorted domestic shuttle flights.
  15. New dention service order on regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA).
  16. Updated guidance documents.
  17. Added DSOs to collection
  18. added Detention Services Order: Security Information Reports
  19. New DSO on medical emergency response codes.
  20. New risk assessment guidance for contracted escort staff.
  21. New detention service order on risk assessment guidance for escorted moves.
  22. New detention service order on risk assessment guidance for escorted moves.
  23. Updated
  24. First published.

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