Gloucestershire police commissioner welcomes deaths in custody review
POLICE and Crime Commissioner for Gloucestershire Martin Surl has welcomed a national review of deaths in police custody announced by Home Secretary Theresa May on Thursday, July 23.
Mr Surl said: “I have always been clear with the police that when someone is brought into their custody in Gloucestershire their primary responsibility is to keep that person safe.”
Between April 2014 and March 2015 17 people died while in police custody. None of these were in Gloucestershire.
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