POLICE ACT 1990 - SECT 127 Complaints made by prisoners

POLICE ACT 1990 - SECT 127

127 Complaints made by prisoners

(1) If a prisoner informs a prison officer that the prisoner wishes to make a complaint, the prison officer--

(a) must take all steps necessary to facilitate the making of the complaint, and

(b) must immediately send, unopened, any written matter addressed to a police officer (whether by name or by reference to an office held by that officer), the Commissioner (whether by name or by reference to that office) or to the LECC to that addressee.

(2) In this section--


"prison officer" means any person by whom the prisoner is detained, or in whose custody the prisoner is, or who is in charge of the prisoner and who, if a correctional officer within the meaning of the Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Act 1999 , is authorised by or under that Act to accept correspondence from a prisoner.


"prisoner" means any person in lawful detention or custody.

Note : Under clause 110 of the Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Regulation 2014 a prisoner must not send any letter otherwise than through the hands of a nominated officer within the meaning of that Regulation.