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This booklet is intended to offer informal guidance in circumstances where journalists, their editors or managers are required to tell next-of-kin of the death of a colleague.
The advice is based on the experience and training of London’s Metropolitan Police and the BBC.
Neither the Dart Centre nor the Metropolitan Police nor the BBC accept any responsibility for actions or outcomes which may follow from use of this document.
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