Collection

Detention services orders

• From: Home Office and Immigration Enforcement
• Part of: Immigration and borders
• Published: 23 January 2014
• Last updated: 27 February 2017, see all updates

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

1. Accommodation standards

   • 26 January 2017
   • Guidance

2. Age dispute cases in immigration detention centres

   • 30 March 2015
   • Guidance

3. Caring for and managing transsexual detainees

   • 25 June 2015
   • Guidance

4. Cedars family activity request form

   • 9 December 2014
   • Guidance

5. Commissioning investigations and management reviews

   • 23 December 2014
   • Guidance

6. Considering detainee placement

   • 16 May 2016
   • Guidance

7. Deaths in detention

   • 14 June 2016
   • Guidance

8. Detainee custody officer certification

   • 20 November 2014
   • Guidance

9. Detainee transferable document and warrant of detention form

   • 1 September 2008
   • Guidance

10. Detainees who refuse to eat or drink

    • 13 May 2013
    • Guidance

11. Detention and escorting: safeguarding children

    • 10 May 2016
    • Guidance

12. Detention Rule 35 process

    • 6 December 2016
    • Guidance

13. Detention services operating standards manual

    • 14 September 2011
    • Guidance

14. Escorting detainees with cash

    • 17 March 2015
    • Guidance

15. Extremism and radicalisation

    • 17 March 2015
    • Guidance

16. Families in detention: outside activities

    • 9 December 2014
    • Guidance

17. Families in immigration removal centres

    • 28 June 2016
    • Guidance

18. Fingerprinting detainees

    • 4 October 2012
    • Guidance

19. Handling complaints in immigration removal centres

    • 2 February 2017
    • Guidance

20. Internet access for detainees

    • 17 May 2016
    • Guidance

21. Investigating incidents in immigration detention centres

    • 1 January 2011
    • Guidance

22. Lesbian, gay and bisexual detainees

    • 29 April 2016
    • Guidance

23. Management of adults at risk in immigration detention

    • 27 February 2017
    • Guidance

24. Managing detainees' money over £1000

    • 21 November 2016
    • Guidance

25. Managing property of detainees in the UK

    • 29 July 2016
    • Guidance

26. Marriage or civil partnership of detainees

    • 16 December 2015
    • Guidance

27. Medical appointments outside the detention estate

    • 3 May 2016
    • Guidance

28. Medical emergency response codes

    • 17 November 2014
    • Guidance

29. Medical information sharing

    • 19 May 2016
    • Guidance

30. Mobile phones and cameras in immigration removal centres

    • 11 December 2014
    • Guidance

31. Multi-agency public protection arrangement (MAPPA)

    • 20 June 2016
    • Guidance

32. Notification of removal directions to detainees

    • 23 March 2016
    • Guidance

33. Operating standards for the detention services escort process

    • 1 January 2012
    • Guidance

34. Paid work for detainees

    • 26 March 2013
    • Guidance

35. Person escort record (PER)

    • 10 October 2012
    • Guidance

36. Pregnant women in detention

    • 1 November 2016
    • Guidance

37. Reception and induction checklist and supplementary guidance

    • 27 July 2016
    • Guidance

38. Recording attempted self harm in detention centres

    • 1 September 2008
    • Guidance

39. Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA)

    • 26 March 2015
    • Guidance

40. Releasing detainees by IS106 release orders

    • 17 March 2015
    • Guidance

41. Removing hidden blades from detainees

    • 23 March 2016
    • Guidance

42. Removing electronic tags from detainees

    • 16 December 2016
    • Guidance

43. Reporting and communicating out of hour incidents

    • 16 May 2016
    • Guidance

44. Risk assessment: part c

    • 1 September 2008
    • Guidance

45. Room sharing risk assessment (RSRA)

    • 12 September 2016
    • Guidance

46. Searching detainees at removal centres

    • 11 December 2014
    • Guidance

47. Security information reports

    • 21 November 2016
    • Guidance

48. Self harm reduction strategy

    • 1 January 2008
    • Guidance

49. Smoke free legislation: removal centres, facilities and vehicles

    • 15 December 2011
    • Guidance

50. Travel warrants for detainees attending asylum courts

    • 13 February 2015
    • Guidance

51. Unescorted domestic shuttle flights

    • 5 October 2015
    • Guidance

52. Use of restraints for escorted moves

    • 3 August 2016
    • Guidance

53. Using profits from shops in immigration removal centres

    • 21 November 2016
    • Guidance

54. Visitors and visiting procedures for detainees

    • 17 March 2015
    • Guidance

55. Wearing identity badges

    • 17 March 2015
    • Guidance

56. Welfare provision in immigration removal centres

    • 5 March 2014
    • Guidance

57. Women in detention

    • 24 June 2016
    • Guidance

58. Working with independent monitoring boards

    • 26 January 2017
    • Guidance

Document information

Published: 23 January 2014

Updated: 27 February 2017

+ full page history

1. 27 February 2017 New guidance added: management of adults at risk in immigration detention.
2. 19 September 2016 New dentention service order on the detention rule 35 process.
3. 12 July 2016 DSO 07/2016 "Use of restraints for escorted moves" added.
4. 24 June 2016 DSO 06/2016 'Women in detention' added.
5. 17 May 2016 DSO 04/2016 'Internet access for detainees' added.
6. 9 May 2016 DSO 03/2016 'Considering detainee placement' added.
7. 29 April 2016 Detention service order 02/2016 added on lesbian, gay and bisexual detainees.
8. 4 April 2016 New dentention service order 1/16 on medical information sharing.
9. 1 February 2016 Removal of routine dental appointments for detainees in removal centres guidance.
10. 14 December 2015 New guidance on reporting and communicating incidents out of hours added.
11. 5 October 2015 New detention service order (DSO) 4/2015 on unescorted domestic shuttle flights.
12. 26 March 2015 New dention service order on regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA).
13. 17 March 2015 Updated guidance documents.
14. 23 December 2014 Added DSOs to collection
15. 9 December 2014 added Detention Services Order: Security Information Reports
16. 17 November 2014 New DSO on medical emergency response codes.
17. 29 August 2014 New risk assessment guidance for contracted escort staff.
18. 26 August 2014 New detention service order on risk assessment guidance for escorted moves.
19. 21 August 2014 New detention service order on risk assessment guidance for escorted moves.
20. 5 March 2014 Updated
21. 23 January 2014 First published.

From: Home Office Immigration Enforcement

Part of: Immigration and borders