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Custodial death
A custodial death refers to a death that occurs while a person is in police custody or prison. Common causes of custodial deaths include traumatic asphyxia during arrests due to police restraint holds, blunt injuries from assaults, alcohol withdrawal, and suicides in prison cells. Investigations into custodial deaths aim to determine the cause of death and ensure authorities are not responsible for any ill-treatment, though authorities may delay examinations to allow injuries to heal or dispose of the body.
Custodial death
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- 2. A deathin custody is a death of a person in the custody of the police, prison service or other authorities. CUSTODIAL DEATH
- 3. deaths resultingfrom police or prison officers attempting to detain a criminal or a person escaping or attempting to escape from police custody or prison.
- 4. TRAUMATIC ASPHYXIA ARM LOCK OR NECK HOLDS BLUNT INJURY ALCOHOL SUICIDE NATURAL CAUSE OF DEATH
- 5. When severalpolicemen fall upon a resisting offender to overpower him Traumatic asphyxia:
- 6. Arm-locks orneck holds: Applied by policeofficers to resisting persons are other causesof deaths during arrest. The arm lock is applied either from behind or with the head of the offender tucked under the police officer’s arm against the waist. CUSTODIAL DEATH
- 7. compression ofthe front and sides of the neck and death can occur . either from reflex cardiac arrest or cerebral ischemia during carotid compression or asphyxia from airway obstruction, though the latter is unlikely to be the sole mechanism.
- 8. Blunt injury mayoccur from the use of fist, arm or leg and by use of a weapon such as a truncheon, riot stick or pistol butt. Any type of blunt injury may be received. Head injuries may occur during a scuffle from falls either against the ground, or against a wall or other obstruction. CUSTODIAL DEATH
- 10. is a frequentcause of death in custody and also it is major factor in provoking aggression and violent resistance. When blood alcohol levels rise to above 350mg/100mL there is an increasing risk of coma and central respiratory depression. At lower blood alcohol levels there is still the risk of aspiration of vomitus and choking on gastric contents. At autopsy, this aspiration should be distinguished from the common agonal phenomenon. ALCOHOL
- 11. in custodyare quite common. Most police forces deprive the prisoner of any objects that could be used to hang himself in the cells such as belts, braces, cord or even bootlaces. In addition, the police cell may be specifically designed to avoid any convenient suspension points, such as bars, hooks, internal door handles. SUICIDES
- 12. Deaths mayoccur from purely natural causes, usually of cardiovascular origin and no objective proof can be provided when the emotional and physical upset of being arrested an confinement may have affected the blood pressure and heart rate sufficiently, by an adrenaline response, to have precipitated an acute cardiaccrisis in the presence of severe preexistingdisease CUSTODIAL DEATH
- 13. All deathsin custody should be examined with care to ensure that the guardians are cleared of any suspicion of ill-treatment. The torture and custodial deaths are confirmed by circumstantial and corroborative evidence. The victim is usually in detention in or some form of custody. Investigations of Torture and Custodial Deaths
- 14. Such typesof death are usually involved with the non-cooperating attitude of the authorities that are hostile to impartial injury. The cases are handed over to the responsible authorities such as Red cross, Amnesty International, Physicians for human rights. .There is usually delay in the process before a victim is being brought for examination, the injuries may have healed and body may have decomposed. Body is sometimes disposed off early. Investigations of Torture and Custodial Deaths
- 15. The causesof deaths in torture or custodial deaths may be sepsis, haemorrhage, internal organ injury and even sheer exhaustion. Investigations of Torture and Custodial Deaths