Collection

Detention services orders

Detention services orders for Home Office officials.

Published 23 January 2014
Last updated 12 December 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. Considering detainee placement
    • Guidance
  5. Commissioning investigations and management reviews
    • Guidance
  6. Deaths in detention
    • Guidance
  7. Detainee Custody Officer and Detainee Custody Officer (Escort) 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 and security of night state
    • Guidance
  24. Management of adults at risk in immigration detention
    • Guidance
  25. Managing detainees' money over £1000
    • Guidance
  26. Managing property of detainees in the UK
    • Guidance
  27. Marriage or civil partnership of detainees
    • Guidance
  28. Medical appointments outside the detention estate
    • Guidance
  29. Medical emergency response codes
    • Guidance
  30. Medical information sharing
    • Guidance
  31. Mobile phones and cameras in immigration removal centres
    • Guidance
  32. Notification of removal directions to detainees
    • Guidance
  33. Operating standards for the detention services escort process
    • Guidance
  34. Paid work for detainees
    • Guidance
  35. Person escort record (PER)
    • Guidance
  36. Pregnant women in detention
    • Guidance
  37. Reception and induction checklist and supplementary guidance
    • Guidance
  38. Recording attempted self harm in detention centres
    • Guidance
  39. Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA)
    • Guidance
  40. Release of detainees from immigration detention
    • Guidance
  41. Removal from association and temporary confinement
    • Guidance
  42. Removing hidden blades from detainees
    • Guidance
  43. Removing electronic tags from detainees
    • Guidance
  44. Reporting and communicating out of hour incidents
    • Guidance
  45. Risk assessment: part c
    • Guidance
  46. Room sharing risk assessment (RSRA)
    • Guidance
  47. Searching detainees at removal centres
    • Guidance
  48. Security information reports
    • Guidance
  49. Self harm reduction strategy
    • Guidance
  50. Surveillance camera systems
    • Guidance
  51. Travel warrants for detainees attending First-tier Tribunals (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)
    • Guidance
  52. Unescorted domestic shuttle flights
    • Guidance
  53. Use of restraints for escorted moves
    • Guidance
  54. Using profits from shops in immigration removal centres
    • Guidance
  55. Visitors and visiting procedures for detainees
    • 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 12 December 2018 + show all updates
  1. "Management and security of night state" document added.
  2. 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.
  3. New DSO on Removal from association and temporary confinement.
  4. New guidance on Gatwick pre departure accommodation arrangements.
  5. New guidance added: management of adults at risk in immigration detention.
  6. New dentention service order on the detention rule 35 process.
  7. DSO 07/2016 "Use of restraints for escorted moves" added.
  8. DSO 06/2016 'Women in detention' added.
  9. DSO 04/2016 'Internet access for detainees' added.
  10. DSO 03/2016 'Considering detainee placement' added.
  11. Detention service order 02/2016 added on lesbian, gay and bisexual detainees.
  12. New dentention service order 1/16 on medical information sharing.
  13. Removal of routine dental appointments for detainees in removal centres guidance.
  14. New guidance on reporting and communicating incidents out of hours added.
  15. New detention service order (DSO) 4/2015 on unescorted domestic shuttle flights.
  16. New dention service order on regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA).
  17. Updated guidance documents.
  18. Added DSOs to collection
  19. added Detention Services Order: Security Information Reports
  20. New DSO on medical emergency response codes.
  21. New risk assessment guidance for contracted escort staff.
  22. New detention service order on risk assessment guidance for escorted moves.
  23. New detention service order on risk assessment guidance for escorted moves.
  24. Updated
  25. First published.