§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) when he expects to install video recording equipment at all police stations to be used during the interrogation of suspects;
(2) if he will list the police stations that currently use video recordings of interrogation of suspects; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThere are no current plans to introduce video-recording of interviews of suspects in all police stations. Interviews with suspects are being video-recorded in stations in the forces of West Mercia and West Midlands, and at Edmonton station in the Metropolitan police. An independent evaluation will be completed in the spring of 1992. Further action will depend on consideration of this evaluation and will take into account the fact that this is an issue which falls within the terms of reference of the Royal Commission on criminal justice.