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Substantiv

  1. (law enforcement) Lawful confinement of a person or close supervision of his or her movements, on a voluntary or involuntary basis, by authorities in order to safeguard that person from attack or other dangers.

Exempel

  • A so‐called star witness in the Brooklyn grand jury in­quiry of alleged links between the police and gamblers sought unsuccessfully yesterday to free himself from protective custody.
  • The government has earmarked a paltry $1.2 million . . . , not enough to properly fund even the state-run counseling centers—the only institutions with the authority to put battered children into protective custody.
  • Authorities charged a man today with 'arson causing death' after a week of devasting fires that killed a total of more than 180 people in Australia, and whisked him into protective custody to guard him from public fury.

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