{"id":428975,"date":"2026-02-16T17:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/428975\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T17:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:19:08","slug":"inquiry-after-woman-found-dead-in-police-cell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/428975\/","title":{"rendered":"Inquiry after woman found dead in police cell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The circumstances around the woman&#8217;s arrest, her supervision while in custody and the actions of police staff who interacted with her would be examined, the IOPC&#8217;s director of engagement, Derrick Campbell, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As a member of the public has died while in the care of police, it&#8217;s important we conduct a thorough, independent investigation to establish the full circumstances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My condolences go to the woman&#8217;s family and friends. Our specialist family liaison team are working with them to offer any support they can and guide them through the next stages of our investigation,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Investigators were sent to the custody block to examine the scene and recover evidence including CCTV and body worn video, and to oversee the police&#8217;s post incident procedure process for officers and staff involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The circumstances around the woman&#8217;s arrest, her supervision while in custody and the actions of police staff who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-428975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}