Uddrag af "REPORT TO THE ICELANDIC GOVERNMENT ON THE VISIT TO ICELAND CARRIED OUT BY THE EUROPEAN COMMITTEE FOR THE PREVENTION OF TORTURE AND INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT (CPT) FROM 3 TO 10 JUNE 2004"
 

Side 37, prĉmis 34:

"..In cases where resistance is encountered, escort staff usually immobilise the detainee completely on the ground, face down, in order to put on the handcuffs. Keeping a detainee in such a position, in particular with escort staff putting their weight on various parts of the body (pressure an the ribcage; knees on the back, immobilisation of the neck) when the person concerned puts up a struggle, entails a risk of positional asphyxia (6). .."

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".. The CPT has made it clear that the use of force and/or means of restraint capable of causing positional asphyxia should be avoided whenever possible and that any such use in exceptional circumstances must be the subject of guidelines designed to reduce to a minimum the risks to the health of the person concerned. .."

Note 6

"...6 See, in particular, "Positional Asphyxia- Sudden Death", US Department of Justice, June 1995, and the proceedings of the "Safer Restraint" Conference held in London in April 2002 under the aegis of the UK Police Complaints Authority (cf, www.pca.gov.uk). .."