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Royal Saint Helena Police Service

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all) fire protection and is not barrier-free, making access for visiting wheelchair users impossible. The cells are overcrowded, not properly ventilated and do not allow sunlight to reach the inmates. There are no sanitation facilities in the cells and prisoners have to use common facilities that are not up to modern standards.
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While prison services on St. Helena adhere to the same high standards as other facilities in the UK, HMP Jamestown cannot fulfill this requirements in some aspects, mainly due to the old building offering only limited space. It was criticised that the building did not offer modern (or hardly any at
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followed up properly and today the same facilities, that have been declared unsuitable in 1850, are still being used in a rather improvised way. Recent structural updates to improve the prisons fire safety might indicate that the relocation of the prison is still not planned in the near future.
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Established in 1826 HMP Jamestown provides accommodation for convicted and remanded prisoners and also provides a police custody facility for arrested persons. HMP Jamestown is a Category B prison holding adult male and female prisoners and young offenders, both convicted and those currently on
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These problems are well known as HMP Jamestown had been declared unfit for further use already in 1850. Since that time, many suggestions had been made to build a more suitable prison and relocate the old facility, the last plan was for doing so in 2017. However, none of these plans have been
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Officers of the RSHPS are known as constables, as is typical with British police organisations. The constables are a mixture of UK, South African and local nationals. They do receive a certain amount of uniforms and equipment from the UK. In 2014, they received some uniforms from
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The Royal Saint Helena Police Service is part of the Safety, Security and Home Affairs Portfolio which also includes the Fire and Rescue Service, His Majesty's Prison Jamestown, the Immigration Office and the Sea Rescue Service.
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Saint Helena has one police station, Coleman House, named after PC Leonard John Coleman who died in the line of duty on 2 December 1982. The Island's only prison - HMP Jamestown - was built in 1827 and refurbished in 2018.
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The prison was widely condemned and deemed to be "unfit for purpose" following an inquiry by the St Helena Equality and Human Rights Commission.
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This is the Office in charge of all border control at the Sea & Air Port, passport issuing and nationality matters and is composed of:
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PC Leonard John Coleman was killed while attending a domestic incident on 2 December 1982.
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World Encyclopedia of Police Forces and Correctional Systems, second edition, Gale, 2006.
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World Police Encyclopedia, ed. by Dilip K. Das & Michael Palmiotto published by
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The service has 29 attested police officers: a chief of police, a
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is undertaken by one full-time police inspector and three
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Map of Royal Saint Helena Police Service's jurisdiction
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Saint Helena Police Service
Crest of the RSHPS
Flag of Saint Helena
Saint Helena
Ascension Island
Tristan da Cunha

sainthelena.gov.sh/directorates/police/

police force
British overseas territory
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
South Atlantic
Saint Helena
Ascension
Tristan da Cunha
detective chief inspector
inspectors
constables
Tristan da Cunha
special constables
Conrad Glass
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary
Sussex Police
Saint Helena Supreme Court
St Helena Magistrates' Court
"Police Directorate"
Police Oracle, 2022
"Riding with the St. Helena Police, getting an inside look at SHPD"
"The Police Department"

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