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Guidance

Visitors and visiting procedures for detained individuals

Detention services order 04/2012 about visiting procedures for detainees.

From:
Home Office and Immigration Enforcement
Published
6 March 2012
Last updated
195 SeptemberMarch 20252026 — See all updates

Documents

Visitors and visiting procedures (accessible)

HTML

Visitors and visiting procedures

PDF, 324301 KB, 2021 pages

Visits and visitors form: annex A

ODT, 10.5 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

Visits and visitors: annex B

PDF, 158 KB, 1 page

Details

Home Office detention services order for detention staff when checking the identity of visitors at detention centres.

Updates to this page

Published 6 March 2012
Last updated 195 SeptemberMarch 20252026 + show all updates

  1. Updated 'Visitors and visiting procedures' guidance to clarify the retention period for cancelled visits.

  2. Guidance updated.

  3. Visitors and visiting procedures updated: MLR standards requirements updated.

  4. Updated DSO guidance.

  5. Revised documents.

  6. Updated guidance.

  7. First published.

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Update history

2026-03-05 13:23
Updated ‘Visitors and visiting procedures’ guidance to clarify the retention period for cancelled visits.

2025-09-19 13:45
Guidance updated.

2022-08-17 16:51
Visitors and visiting procedures updated: MLR standards requirements updated.