McKinnon, Iain http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5760-9824
Finch, Tracy
Funding for this research was provided by:
Research Trainees Coordinating Centre (DRF-2010-03-95)
Article History
Received: 21 June 2017
Accepted: 8 March 2018
First Online: 22 March 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: A favourable ethical opinion for the qualitative study was obtained from Newcastle University Faculty of Medical Sciences Ethics Committee on 3 July 2012 (Ref 00548/2012). All police staff participants in the qualitative part of the study gave written consent. The wider project, including interviewing of police custody detainees in the quantitative part of the study, had already received a favourable ethical opinion from the Newcastle and North Tyneside NHS Research Ethics Committee on 16 June 2011 (Ref [CitationRef removed]/NE/ 0057). All participants in the quantitative part of the study gave either written or witnessed verbal informed consent. The latter method was approved by the NHS Research Ethics Committee in order to allow people with poor literacy to partake in the study. The study was also approved by Superintendent Annette Wightman, Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Custody Directorate in 2012.
: Consent for publication of data collected in this study was obtained from all participants. Where the data relate to police staff, written consent was obtained. In respect to data obtained by police detainees, written or witnessed verbal consent was obtained, as detailed in the previous section.
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