Handcuffing policy

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, Greater Manchester Police should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

Dear Greater Manchester Police,

I understand that there is Home Office Approved Training for the application of handcuffs on suspects/detainees, however, there seems to be a lack of information regarding what type of suspect/detainee should have which of the approved application methods applied.

I have found information that rear handcuffing in the stack position should be applied to slimmer people and larger suspects should have either back to back (of hand) or if impractical, to have 2 sets of handcuffs connected together.

It is clear that some people are too large to have rear stack at all or are large enough not to be able to have rear stack without causing considerable pain, discomfort and injury, yet I have found evidence of some people who clearly shouldn't have been handcuffed in the rear stack position being handcuffed in the aforementioned position.

What is your force policy on handcuffing large people who struggle to or cannot practically position their hands/arms for a rear stack and what are officers taught in regards to handcuffing in the rear stack position?Yours faithfully,

Daniel Elliott

Dear Greater Manchester Police,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Greater Manchester Police's handling of my FOI request 'Handcuffing policy'.

I appreciate you may have a lot of requests but this is getting ridiculous.

please review my request and respond.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/h...

Yours faithfully,

Daniel Elliott

Greater Manchester Police

Dear Daniel,

Our sincere apologies for not contacting you earlier. We are still waiting for a response from the relevant unit who hopefully holds the data requested.

An email to chase this information will be sent today. We will be in contact with you shortly with an update.

Kind Regards

Pamela Hughes
Information Compliance and Records Management Unit 
Information Services Branch - Business Operations
Greater Manchester Police
c/o Openshaw Complex, Lawton Street, Manchester M11 2NS

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