Collection
Detention services orders
Detention services orders for Home Office officials.
This collection contains detention services orders. These are instructions outlining procedures to be followed by Home Office staff.
Documents
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Accommodation standards
- Guidance
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Age dispute cases in immigration detention centres
- Guidance
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Caring for and managing transsexual detainees
- Guidance
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Commissioning investigations and management reviews
- Guidance
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Considering detainee placement
- Guidance
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Deaths in detention
- Guidance
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Detainee custody officer certification
- Guidance
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Detainee transferable document and warrant of detention form
- Guidance
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Detainees who refuse to eat or drink
- Guidance
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Detention and escorting: safeguarding children
- Guidance
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Detention Rule 35 process
- Guidance
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Detention services operating standards manual
- Guidance
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Escorting detainees with cash
- Guidance
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Extremism and radicalisation
- Guidance
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Families in detention: outside activities
- Guidance
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Families in immigration removal centres
- Guidance
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Fingerprinting detainees
- Guidance
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Gatwick pre departure accommodation arrangements
- Guidance
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Handling complaints in immigration removal centres
- Guidance
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Internet access for detainees
- Guidance
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Investigating incidents in immigration detention centres
- Guidance
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Lesbian, gay and bisexual detainees
- Guidance
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Management of adults at risk in immigration detention
- Guidance
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Managing detainees' money over £1000
- Guidance
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Managing property of detainees in the UK
- Guidance
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Marriage or civil partnership of detainees
- Guidance
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Medical appointments outside the detention estate
- Guidance
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Medical emergency response codes
- Guidance
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Medical information sharing
- Guidance
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Mobile phones and cameras in immigration removal centres
- Guidance
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Notification of removal directions to detainees
- Guidance
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Operating standards for the detention services escort process
- Guidance
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Paid work for detainees
- Guidance
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Person escort record (PER)
- Guidance
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Pregnant women in detention
- Guidance
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Reception and induction checklist and supplementary guidance
- Guidance
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Recording attempted self harm in detention centres
- Guidance
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Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA)
- Guidance
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Release of detainees from immigration detention
- Guidance
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Removal from association and temporary confinement
- Guidance
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Removing hidden blades from detainees
- Guidance
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Removing electronic tags from detainees
- Guidance
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Reporting and communicating out of hour incidents
- Guidance
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Risk assessment: part c
- Guidance
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Room sharing risk assessment (RSRA)
- Guidance
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Searching detainees at removal centres
- Guidance
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Security information reports
- Guidance
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Self harm reduction strategy
- Guidance
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Surveillance camera systems
- Guidance
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Travel warrants for detainees attending asylum courts
- Guidance
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Unescorted domestic shuttle flights
- Guidance
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Use of restraints for escorted moves
- Guidance
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Using profits from shops in immigration removal centres
- Guidance
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Visitors and visiting procedures for detainees
- Guidance
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Wearing identity badges
- Guidance
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Welfare provision in immigration removal centres
- Guidance
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Women in detention
- Guidance
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Working with independent monitoring boards
- Guidance
Published 23 January 2014
Last updated 13 February 2018 + show all updates
Last updated 13 February 2018 + show all updates
- 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.
- New DSO on Removal from association and temporary confinement.
- New guidance on Gatwick pre departure accommodation arrangements.
- New guidance added: management of adults at risk in immigration detention.
- New dentention service order on the detention rule 35 process.
- DSO 07/2016 "Use of restraints for escorted moves" added.
- DSO 06/2016 'Women in detention' added.
- DSO 04/2016 'Internet access for detainees' added.
- DSO 03/2016 'Considering detainee placement' added.
- Detention service order 02/2016 added on lesbian, gay and bisexual detainees.
- New dentention service order 1/16 on medical information sharing.
- Removal of routine dental appointments for detainees in removal centres guidance.
- New guidance on reporting and communicating incidents out of hours added.
- New detention service order (DSO) 4/2015 on unescorted domestic shuttle flights.
- New dention service order on regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA).
- Updated guidance documents.
- Added DSOs to collection
- added Detention Services Order: Security Information Reports
- New DSO on medical emergency response codes.
- New risk assessment guidance for contracted escort staff.
- New detention service order on risk assessment guidance for escorted moves.
- New detention service order on risk assessment guidance for escorted moves.
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- First published.