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
526 MarchJune 2026 — See all updates

Documents

Visitors and visiting procedures (accessible)

HTML

Visitors and visiting procedures

PDF, 301302 KB, 21 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 526 MarchJune 2026 href="#full-history">+— show Show all updates

  1. Updated to the correct Home Office audit requirements.

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

  3. Guidance updated.

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

  5. Updated DSO guidance.

  6. Revised documents.

  7. Updated guidance.

  8. First published.

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