The importance given to compliance with the Codes of Practice under PACE for police officers to take contemporaneous notes is to ensure that a suspect’s remarks are accurately recorded and to protect the officer from suggestions that they induced the suspects to confess by improper approaches or promises.
Judges:
Lord Lane CJ
Citations:
(1990) 91 Cr App R 1, [1990] 2 All ER 187
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Criminal Practice
Updated: 18 May 2022; Ref: scu.415964