Ambulance not called promptly when person reported dead
Greater Manchester Police received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 28 Oct 2015 and 19 Feb 2024.
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 Greater Manchester Police was found for the earlier reports.
The story, report by report
Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“It seems to me that procedure should be in place whereby it is immediately established who is going to be responsible for calling the ambulance to avoid any delays, and the ambulance is called for at once.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ No published response from Greater Manchester Police was found for this report.
- 8 years 4 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderatea different coroner
“That in respect of GMP Call Handler's being required to call an ambulance to attend the scene, even where it is reported that someone is”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Greater Manchester Police responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“the Force Contact, Crime and Operations Branch will further reinforce the requirements on call handlers to call an ambulance when faced with a scenario such as that which presented in the case of Mr [name redacted]. This will be achieved by way of an email being sent to all call handlers and by including an item on each call handling team's briefing site.”
- All reports to Greater Manchester Police
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 → 2024Samuel Curless8 years 4 months after Christopher Smith · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderate
Closely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderateBoth reports concern failures in ensuring that an ambulance is summoned promptly by police personnel. The earlier report highlights unclear responsibility for making the call, while the later report points to insufficient training and learning about the duty to call an ambulance even when a person is reported dead.
Christopher Smith · 28 Oct 2015
“It seems to me that procedure should be in place whereby it is immediately established who is going to be responsible for calling the ambulance to avoid any delays, and the ambulance is called for at once.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Samuel Curless · 19 Feb 2024
“That in respect of GMP Call Handler's being required to call an ambulance to attend the scene, even where it is reported that someone is”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
No published response from Greater Manchester Police was found for this report.
Stated action
“the Force Contact, Crime and Operations Branch will further reinforce the requirements on call handlers to call an ambulance when faced with a scenario such as that which presented in the case of Mr [name redacted]. This will be achieved by way of an email being sent to all call handlers and by including an item on each call handling team's briefing site.”
- 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 Greater Manchester Police 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 → 2024 | 0.64 | 0.18 | Closely related · 0.80 | different |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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