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Code Recommendation Inquiry Response
BAHA-34 Consistent Sight Deprivation Terminology
Theatre level detention instructions and guidance should be reviewed to ensure that references to the means of permissible sight deprivation are consistent. …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-35 Detention Timescales Consistency
Theatre level detention instructions and guidance should be reviewed to ensure that references to timescales for detention are clear and consistent. Timescales …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-36 CPErS Documentation
CPErS documents should be as few in number as possible but they require amendment to ensure that those involved in detention are …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-37 Occurrence Book Requirement
A suitable occurrence book must be maintained at all times whenever CPErS are being held at a unit or sub-unit holding facility.
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-38 Single Comprehensive CPErS Order
The MoD should continue its recent practice of ensuring that theatre level instructions and procedures for CPErS are contained within a single …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-39 Review Goggles Use in THF
The Provost Marshal (Army) should formally review whether the current practice of using blacked out goggles for all movement of CPErS within …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-40 Battlegroup Detention Officer
Each Battlegroup should have a 'Detention Officer' being a commissioned officer within Battlegroup Headquarters. The role should encompass coordination and management of …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-41 Detention Sergeant Role
On operations where CPErS may be taken there should be a Senior Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO) who acts as the 'Detention Sergeant' who …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-42 Written CPErS Responsibilities
Before any deployed operation, the Commanding Officer must ensure that there is a clear written explanation of unit level responsibilities for CPErS. …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-43 PM(A) Inspection Authority
The PM(A) and those who in his name carry out inspections of the main operational detention facilities should be expressly recognised as …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-44 Redacted Recommendation
[REDACTED - This recommendation has been redacted from the public version of the report]
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-45 Unannounced Inspections
The PM(A) and the in theatre Force Provost Marshal should take account of the in theatre situation in assessing whether any unannounced …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-46 Lessons Learned Process
The MoD should consider whether the lessons learned procedures need to be adjusted or supplemented so that the clearer and more urgent …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-47 CPErS Training Content
CPErS training should include both theoretical and practical training in what Forces personnel can and should do when handling CPErS. It is …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-48 End-to-End CPErS Training
CPErS training should be woven into the full range of military exercises and training. Such training should be 'end to end', not …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-49 Consistent Training Materials
Training materials across the Services need to be reviewed to ensure that the messages about all aspects of CPErS handling are clear …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-50 MATT 7 Presentation Update
The MATT 7 PowerPoint presentation on the five techniques should be amended to ensure that the definitions of the techniques are consistent …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-51 Prisoner Handling DVD Update
The 2005 prisoner handling DVD should be amended to avoid misleading messages about sight deprivation in the context of interrogation, and the …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-52 Restraint Positions Guidance
Greater clarity and guidance should be given in training in relation to the concept of 'restraint positions'. More must be done to …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-53 Positional Asphyxia Training
MATT 7 and mission specific training for CPErS handling should incorporate suitably pitched training on the risks of positional asphyxia/death by struggle …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-54 MATT 7 Take-up Recording
There needs to be better recording of the take-up of MATT 7 (and equivalent training) to avoid the need to rely upon …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-55 Operational Law Training Currency
Those responsible for designing the mandatory operational law and values and standards training must keep the training relevant and up-to-date both in …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-56 Operational Law Training Quality
Unit commanders should ensure that the annual operational law training is delivered to the highest standards, so as to avoid it becoming …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-57 Remove Shock of Capture Language
Training soldiers to maintain or prolong the shock of capture is apt to be misunderstood and should not feature in general training. …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-58 Moral Courage Training
MATT 6 training should include discussion and role play scenarios relevant to moral courage. Training materials should include reference to occasions when …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-59 TQ Training Audit
Enhanced auditing of tactical questioning and interrogation training should be introduced to ensure that the interrogation branch at Chicksands adequately trains students …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-60 Annual Legal Review of TQ Training
The annual legal review of training materials planned by Defence Intelligence and Security Centre (DISC) is a necessary step. It must include …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-61 Triennial Legal Review
A more senior and more independent legal review of the kind now being conducted as a one off ad hoc review is …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-62 DISC Materials Management
DISC should take immediate remedial action to ensure that: (1) old versions of interrogation branch teaching materials are retained but archived separately; …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-63 Complete TQ Training in Approaches
The tactical questioning and interrogation courses must train students adequately in all approaches that they may be required to use operationally. The …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-64 Geneva Convention Compliance in Training
The MoD should give further careful consideration to the examples used in training for bridging between questioning sessions to ensure that they …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-65 Remove Conditioning Terminology
'Conditioning' should cease to be used as an approved Chicksands or HUMINT term. The term is dangerously ambiguous since it can be …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-66 Remove Shock of Capture from DISC
DISC should give consideration to avoiding the terminology 'maintain the shock of capture' and 'prolong the shock of capture' even in their …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-67 Resistance Training Warning
All theoretical and practical resistance training must include a warning which explains in terms that the training is to show conduct that …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-68 SERE DVD Review
When reviewing the current Survive, Evade, Resist and Extract (SERE) DVD, Defence Survival Training Organisation (DSTO) should take into account the latest …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-69 DSTO Sole Provider of Resistance Training
The MoD must make all units aware that, not only is DSTO the only body trained to provide resistance training, but that …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-70 MCTC Control and Restraint Monitoring
The Military Correction Training Centre (MCTC) should continue to monitor that breakaway, personal protection and control and restraint techniques taught on the …
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-71 Redacted Recommendation
[REDACTED - This recommendation has been redacted from the public version of the report]
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-72 Detention Sergeant Training
Unit Detention Sergeants (see recommendation 41) should be properly trained in CPErS handling practices.
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
BAHA-73 Redacted Recommendation
[REDACTED - This recommendation has been redacted from the public version of the report]
Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011) Accepted
R1 National IT system for police intelligence
A national IT system for England and Wales to support police intelligence should be introduced as a matter of urgency. The Home …
Bichard Inquiry (2004) Accepted
R2 PLX system introduction
The PLX system, which flags that intelligence is held about someone by particular police forces, should be introduced in England and Wales …
Bichard Inquiry (2004) Accepted
R3 Police IT procurement review
The procurement of IT systems by the police should be reviewed to ensure that, wherever possible, national solutions are delivered to national …
Bichard Inquiry (2004) Accepted
R4 PNC investment
Investment should be made available by Government to secure the PNC's medium and long-term future, given its importance to intelligence-led policing and …
Bichard Inquiry (2004) Accepted
R5 PNC Code of Practice implementation
The new Code of Practice, made under the Police Reform Act 2002, dealing with the quality and timeliness of PNC data input, …
Bichard Inquiry (2004) Accepted
R6 PNC data quality inspection
The quality and timeliness of PNC data input should be routinely inspected as part of the Policing Performance Assessment Framework (PPAF) and …
Bichard Inquiry (2004) Accepted
R7 Court results PNC transfer
The transfer of responsibility for inputting court results onto the PNC should be reaffirmed by the Court Service and the Home Office …
Bichard Inquiry (2004) Accepted
R8 Information management Code of Practice
A Code of Practice should be produced covering record creation, review, retention, deletion and information sharing. This should be made under the …
Bichard Inquiry (2004) Accepted
R9 Key principles of information management
The Code of Practice must clearly set out the key principles of good information management (capture, review, retention, deletion and sharing), having …
Bichard Inquiry (2004) Accepted
R10 Information management standards
The Code of Practice must set out the standards to be met in terms of systems (including IT), accountability, training, resources and …
Bichard Inquiry (2004) Accepted
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