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The process by which individual UK police forces respond to requests for information about arrests, which can be inconsistent and incomplete.

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Jan 23, 2026

How do UK police forces record whether a custody arrest involved social media, and how consistent is that coding across forces?

do not use a single, publicly mandated national flag or category to mark “social media” as the cause of a custody arrest; instead the picture assembled by reporting relies on from individual forces an...

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