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[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

If you're de-arrested you're not locked in a cell (custody). If you're released after questioning it's being de-arrested. If you're held in a cell during any of it you can't be de-arrested, you have to be "released without charge".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-29784497

"de-arrested" is not technically the same as "released without charge". The key difference in terminology is whether the person is taken into custody and processed, says a spokesman for the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo).

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/mar/01/law.emmabrockes

TLDR:

  • Arrest - copper has you.
  • De-arrest - Copper lets go.
  • Released without charge - Released from police custody cell (jail) after an arrest.