{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reform-act-2002/schedule-4/paragraph-33B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reform-act-2002/schedule-4/paragraph-33B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/30",
  "legislation_title": "Police Reform Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reform-act-2002",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/33B",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "33B",
  "heading": "Powers in respect of detained persons",
  "text": "Where a designation applies this paragraph to any person, he shall be under a duty, when in the course of his employment he is present at a police station—\n(a) to keep under control any person detained at the police station and for whom he is for the time being responsible;\n(b) to assist any officer or other designated person to keep any other person detained at the police station under control; and\n(c) to prevent the escape of any such person as is mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b),\nand for those purposes shall be entitled to use reasonable force.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 paras. 33B, 33C inserted (1.7.2005) by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), ss. 122, 178, Sch. 9 para. 7; S.I. 2005/1521, art. 3(1)(h)(j)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/30/schedule/4/paragraph/33B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:50.998378+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."
}