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Custody suites requirements have changed over the course of time. Just to have a couple of cells, and someone checking on prisoners every couple of hours is insufficient now, has been for some years now. Isn't viable for every nick to have a custody suite. When a police officer arrests someone, in takes them out of the system for a couple of hours anyway. The only cost is the time transporting, that is swallowed up by ground rents etc, custody officers, medical person etc etc.At the local police station by me they closed the custody suite and now take anyone arrested to another police station about 15 miles away the PCC say it saves just around £630k per year somebody has recently costed all the police time lost in tranporting them to another police station when they could be policing the local area and local officers traveling to interview them and it is believed to be costing somewhere in the region of £1.3m people are trying to understand where the saving is