Inadequate seizure recognition and post‑seizure behaviour training
College of Policing received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 12 Apr 2019 and 21 Jul 2022.
They came from 2 different coroners in 2 coroner areas. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
A published response was found for 1 of the 1 earlier reports, stating 1 specific action.
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Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“Although epilepsy was not found to be causative in the death in this Inquest, in another situation with a similar set of circumstances,”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ College of Policing responded.Response (PDF) ↗
- 3 years 3 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · higha different coroner
“Police Officers provided evidence that they did not have training on epilepsy and mental health conditions such as post ictal psychosis, PTSD and those who have experienced sexual trauma”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ College of Policing responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“We recognise that policing must have some medical knowledge and this is provided through our first aid programme. This programme and medical knowledge makes explicit links to our vulnerability training. To ensure police responders are equipped to effectively respond to missing persons, our training focuses on managing the full spectrum of vulnerabilities through effective and proportionate risk management. In reality, this means that College standards require front line responders to ask good”
Stated timescale: 15 September 2022
- All reports to College of Policing
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.
2019 → 2022Gaia Pope-Sutherland3 years 3 months after Duncan Tomlin · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports highlight that police officers lack adequate training regarding epilepsy and related mental‑health presentations. The earlier report focuses on seizure recognition and post‑seizure behaviour, while the later report expands the gap to include conditions such as post‑ictal psychosis, PTSD and trauma‑related issues.
Duncan Tomlin · 12 Apr 2019
“Although epilepsy was not found to be causative in the death in this Inquest, in another situation with a similar set of circumstances,”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Gaia Pope-Sutherland · 21 Jul 2022
“Police Officers provided evidence that they did not have training on epilepsy and mental health conditions such as post ictal psychosis, PTSD and those who have experienced sexual trauma”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
Stated action · timescale: 15 September 2022
“We recognise that policing must have some medical knowledge and this is provided through our first aid programme. This programme and medical knowledge makes explicit links to our vulnerability training. To ensure police responders are equipped to effectively respond to missing persons, our training focuses on managing the full spectrum of vulnerabilities through effective and proportionate risk management. In reality, this means that College standards require front line responders to ask good”
- 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 College of Policing 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 → 2022 | 0.76 | 0.12 | Closely related · 0.90 | different |
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