Rotorua police have changed the way they monitor prisoners after the self-inflicted death of a suspect last year.
Anthony McGuire, 33, was arrested after a domestic dispute and put in the cells, but within hours he was dead.
Police say he was not searched and was let into the cell with personal items.
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