RIPA section 49 anyone have any info

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Tilly20Web

Member since
November 2025

35 posts

Has anyone ever been issued a RIPA section 49 I'm more interested in hearing from people whose son was under 18 at time of offence and still only 18 or slightly over after being arrested thanks

Posted Mon May 4, 2026 6:43amReport post

edel2020

Member since
March 2022

725 posts

This is a demand to handover passwords or a pin number for a phone. Quite unusual, because the police usually try to break into a phone first and they can always ask the person for the information, if they do not succeed.

It would require a lot of extra paperwork to issue a RIPA notice, which is why the police normally avoid it. But if the person has genuinely forgotten their password or their pin and it goes to court, then the CPS would have to prove beyond reasonable doubt, that the person could not give police the details.

Posted Wed May 6, 2026 11:29amReport post


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