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[This is Leicestershire] - Deputy Chief Constable Debbie Simpson, who led the audit, said there was "no nationally agreed policy to deal with such items at the conclusion of an investigation". A spokesman for Leicestershire police said six brains and one lung, belonging to seven
Police apologise for storing human organs
www.telegraph.co.uk
[Telegraph.co.uk] - DCC Debbie Simpson says systems need to be improved after an audit of forensic units found that hundreds of body parts were being stored unnecessarily by police forces around the country. The report commissioned by the Association of Chief Police
492 organs and limbs kept by police
www.independent.co.uk
[The Independent] - Deputy Chief Constable Debbie Simpson, who led the audit, said there was "no nationally agreed policy to deal with such items at the conclusion of the investigation". Some relatives may not have been made aware that detectives had kept the remains but
Hampshire and City of London police reveal body part retention
www.bbc.co.uk
[BBC News] - The lead officer for forensic pathology at Acpo, Deputy Chief Constable Debbie Simpson, said the audit would allow it to "consider the most appropriate way of sensitively dealing with tissue" which was no longer needed by police.
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