Notice of rights and entitlements

Notice of rights and entitlements

The notice of rights and entitlements sets out a person's rights while in police detention and is issued in accordance with the Police and Criminal Evidence Act Code of Practice C, paragraph 3.2.

In compliance with note for guidance 3B of that code, the revised notice has been translated into Welsh and 53 other languages. You can download either the text of the notice (as a PDF) or listen to an audio version (as a MP3) of it from the table below.

Your rights while in police detention

Language (English)	Language (Language specific)	Text (PDF)	Audio
English		English text (230KB)	English audio
English - Easy Read		Easy Read text (1MB)
Welsh		Welsh text (220KB)	Welsh audio
Albanian		Albanian text (180KB)	Albanian audio
Amharic		Amharic text (157KB)	Amharic audio
Arabic		Arabic text (335KB)	Arabic audio
Bengali		Bengali text (546KB)	Bengali audio
Bulgarian		Bulgarian text (301KB)	Bulgarian audio
Chinese Simplified		Chinese Simplified text (198KB)	Chinese - Mandarin audio
Chinese Traditional		Chinese Traditional text (315KB)	Chinese - Cantonese audio
Croatian		Croatian text (305KB)	Croatian audio
Czech		Czech text (299KB)	Czech audio
Danish		Danish text (118KB)	Danish audio
Dari		Dari text (287KB)	Dari audio
Dutch		Dutch text (183KB)	Dutch audio
Estonian		Estonian text (187KB)	Estonian audio
Farsi		Farsi text (373KB)	Farsi audio
Finnish		Finnish text (180KB)	Finnish audio
French		French text (243KB)	French audio
Georgian		Georgian text (170KB)	Georgian audio
German		German text (242KB)	German audio
Greek		Greek text (303KB)	Greek audio
Gujarati		Gujarati text (460KB)	Gujarati audio
Hausa		Hausa text (235KB)	Hausa audio
Hindi		Hindi text (362KB)	Hindi audio
Hungarian		Hungarian text (301KB)	Hungarian audio
Igbo		Igbo text (159KB)	Igbo audio
Italian		Italian text (233KB)	Italian audio
Korean		Korean text (254KB)	Korean audio
Kurdish Kurmanji		Kurdish Kurmanji text (292KB)	Kurdish Kurmanji audio
Kurdish Sorani		Kurdish Sorani text (321KB)	Kurdish Sorani audio
Latvian		Latvian text (300KB)	Latvian audio
Lithuanian		Lithuanian text (228KB)	Lithuanian audio
Maltese		Maltese text (306KB)	Maltese audio
Norwegian		Norwegian text (175KB)	Norwegian audio
Pashto		Pashto text (234KB)	Pashto audio
Polish		Polish text (305KB)	Polish audio
Portuguese		Portuguese text (184KB)	Portuguese audio
Punjabi		Punjabi text (189KB)	Punjabi audio
Romanian		Romanian text (299KB)	Romanian audio
Russian		Russian text (307KB)	Russian audio
Shona		Shona text (185KB)	Shona audio
Slovak		Slovak text (236KB)	Slovak audio
Slovenian		Slovene text (350KB)	Slovene audio
Somali		Somali text (184KB)	Somali audio
Spanish		Spanish text (240KB)	Spanish audio
Swedish		Swedish text (178KB)	Swedish audio
Tamil		Tamil text (117KB)	Tamil audio
Thai		Thai text (322KB)	Thai audio
Tigrinya		Tigrinya text (261KB)	Tigrinya audio
Turkish		Turkish text (342KB)	Turkish audio
Twi		Twi text (215KB)	Twi audio
Ukranian		Ukranian text (323KB)	Ukranian audio
Urdu		Urdu text (342KB)	Urdu audio
Vietnamese		Vietnamese text (252KB)	Vietnamese audio
Yoruba		Yoruba text (234KB)	Yoruba audio