Catalogue description Committee of Inquiry into Police Interrogation Procedures in Northern Ireland (Bennett Committee): Records

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Title: Committee of Inquiry into Police Interrogation Procedures in Northern Ireland (Bennett Committee): Records
Description:

Records of the Committee of Inquiry into Police Interrogation Procedures in Northern Ireland (Bennett Committee) including its report.
Date: 1964-1979
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
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Committee of Inquiry into Police Interrogation Procedures in Northern Ireland, 1978-1979
Physical description: 131 files and magnetic tape
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Publication note:

The report of the Committee of Inquiry into Police Interrogation Procedures in Northern Ireland (Bennett Committee) was published as Cmnd. 7497.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Committee of Inquiry into Police Interrogation Procedures in Northern Ireland was appointed in June 1978 by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Roy Mason, to examine police procedures and practice in Northern Ireland relating to the interrogation of persons suspected of scheduled offences; to examine the operation of the present procedures for dealing with complaints relating to the conduct of the Police in the course of the process of interrogation; and to report and make recommendations.

The committee was composed of Judge H G Bennett, Chairman, Sir James Houghton, Professor John Marshall, Nigel Varney, Secretary and Noel Cornick, Deputy Secretary (Belfast).

The report of the committee was presented on 16 February 1979 and was published as Cmnd. 7497 in March 1979.

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