At present in criminal matters an arrested person can only be held for 24 hours without a Superintendent's considering the matter, and then if so reviewed detention may be extended by another 12 hours, plus they have access to legal representation. Usually this allows for evidence and statement gathering and a whole bunch of interviews plus of course the suspect can 'dry out' from any drugs or intoxicants taken and receive medical treatment/assessment if needs be - and of course they have to have 8 hours rest (so that if you nick someone at 10pm you waste a lot of the time you could use to interview them in, compared to noting where they are and coming back to arrest them at 7am).
With Terrorism the issue is muddier and sometimes the evidence harder to gather as I suppose after any actual physical evidence like chemicals etc, it is down to looking at travel movements, emails, mobile phone calls etc and some of these require third parties (such as other countries) to be willing to divulge stuff and for it to be decoded.
On the whole I support the idea of a longer period for investigation (so long as the bod has access to legal representation), such as 28 days, but if that's not long enough I'm suprised that 90 is the figure chosen after 28 rather than say 60.
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With Terrorism the issue is muddier and sometimes the evidence harder to gather as I suppose after any actual physical evidence like chemicals etc, it is down to looking at travel movements, emails, mobile phone calls etc and some of these require third parties (such as other countries) to be willing to divulge stuff and for it to be decoded.
On the whole I support the idea of a longer period for investigation (so long as the bod has access to legal representation), such as 28 days, but if that's not long enough I'm suprised that 90 is the figure chosen after 28 rather than say 60.