Inadequate CCTV monitoring in custodial settings
Ministry of Justice received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 9 Mar 2015 and 8 Nov 2016.
They came from 2 different coroners in 2 coroner areas. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
No published response from Ministry of Justice was found for the earlier reports.
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“The use of CCTV monitored cells was discontinued after his death and was not available at the time of Mr [name redacted] death.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ No published response from Ministry of Justice was found for this report.
- 1 year 8 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.92 · higha different coroner
“(5) That all custody suites have sufficient facilities for CCTV monitoring of detainees at risk in custody whether held by the State or private custody providers.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ The most recent report. A response may not be due or published yet.
- All reports to Ministry of Justice
Each row is one judged link between an earlier and a later report. Open a row to read both quotes, found word for word in the originals.
2015 → 2016Michelle Lawrence1 year 8 months after Craig Bell · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.92 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.92 · highBoth reports highlight inadequate CCTV monitoring in custodial settings, noting that existing systems are not being used effectively or sufficiently deployed.
Craig Bell · 9 Mar 2015
“The use of CCTV monitored cells was discontinued after his death and was not available at the time of Mr [name redacted] death.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Michelle Lawrence · 8 Nov 2016
“(5) That all custody suites have sufficient facilities for CCTV monitoring of detainees at risk in custody whether held by the State or private custody providers.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
No published response from Ministry of Justice was found for this report.
No published response from Ministry of Justice was found for this report. It is the most recent report, so a response may not be due or published yet.
- Each report's concerns were extracted by Nemotron 3 Nano on Nebius Token Factory, each with a quote copied from the report.
- Concerns from reports to Ministry of Justice at least six months apart were compared by meaning (Qwen3 embeddings) and wording (TF-IDF).
- The closest pairs were judged by Nemotron 3 Super with reasoning on. Only identical or closely related, with confidence of at least 0.70, are shown.
- Every quote was checked by code as an exact substring of the original text. Names of staff and family are redacted, and the deceased are named by report title only.
| Link | Meaning | Wording | Judge | Coroner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 → 2016 | 0.69 | 0.19 | Closely related · 0.92 | different |
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