Part 18Miscellaneous
Places of safety
189Places of safety: restrictions on use of police stations
1
This section applies where a person is authorised or required under this Act to keep or detain a child in a place of safety.
2
A child may be kept or detained in a police station only if it is not reasonably practicable to keep or detain the child in a place of safety which is not a police station.
3
Where a child is being kept or detained in a police station, the person must take steps to identify a place of safety which is not a police station and transfer the child to that place as soon as is reasonably practicable.