{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984/section-50",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984/section-50.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/60",
  "legislation_title": "Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984",
  "path": "section/50",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": "Records of detention.",
  "text": "(1) Each police force shall keep written records showing on an annual basis—\n(a) the number of persons kept in police detention for more than 24 hours and subsequently released without charge;\n(b) the number of applications for warrants of further detention and the results of the applications; and\n(c) in relation to each warrant of further detention—\n(i) the period of further detention authorised by it;\n(ii) the period which the person named in it spent in police detention on its authority; and\n(iii) whether he was charged or released without charge.\n(2) Every annual report—\n(a) under section 22 of the Police Act 1996; or\n(b) made by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis,\nshall contain information about the matters mentioned in subsection (1) above in respect of the period to which the report relates.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 50(2)(a) substituted (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 16, ss. 103, 104(1) Sch. 7 Pt. II para.35"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 50 modified (2.8.1993) by S.I. 1993/1813, art. 6, Sch. 3 para. 3(3)."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 50 applied (with modifications) (25.6.2013) by The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Application to immigration officers and designated customs officials in England and Wales) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1542), arts. 1, 12(2)-(4), Sch. 2 (with arts. 13-31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 50 applied (with modifications) (4.11.2015) by The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Application to Revenue and Customs) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1783), arts. 1, 3(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 3(2), (3), 4-19, Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Ss. 8, 9, 15, 16, 17(1)(b(2) (4), 18–20, 21, 22(1)–(4), 28, 29, 30(1)–(4)(a)(5)–(11), 31, 32(1)–(9), 34(1)–(5), 35, 36, 37, 39, 40–44, 50, 51(d), 52, 54, 55, 64(1)–(4)(5)(6), Sch. 1 applied with modifications by S.I. 1985/1800, arts. 3–11, Schs. 1, 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/60/section/50",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:00:58.179601+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}