National Police Chiefs' Council

“EEAST's Mental Health team have also been working on updating the guidance documents for our partners in relation to managing s.136 patients within the community setting. This document 'Requesting Conveyance for Patients Detained under the MHA' will be sent to you once the review and update has been completed in December 2021.”

“providing additional Continuous Professional Development training around Acute Behavioural Disturbance”

“We support your recommendation for a national review of how the MARAC system can afford protection and support for these particularly vulnerable complex individuals.”

“The CPS Operations Directorate has also been considering the national implications and as a result ensured we have modified CPS training so advocates conducting youth court cases are reminded that a youth can always be remanded for their "own welfare”

“We feel that this represents a common sense approach, which we would suggest would ensue in the majority of circumstances, therefore we take no issue with incorporating appropriate guidance to this affect as part of the interim review of the Detention and Custody Authorised Professional Practice which is currently ongoing. We anticipate that the updated guidance will be published and available via the College website circa summer 2015.”

“My concern is that this has not been rolled out nationally and therefore many other forces will not understand the implication of this condition and how best to treat it. | suggest contact is made with Chief Inspector | Og WMP for full information on the changes made in the West Midlands Area”

“The responsibility for healthcare in police custody suites will however soon transfer from individual police authorities to NHS England. Healthcare for persons in police custody will therefore be commissioned to NHS standards of care. This should lead to more consistent and improved healthcare standards, by ensuring that the same range and quality of substance misuse services are available to persons in police custody as would be available in prison or community settings.”

“G4S Forensic and Medical Service are responsible for the provision of medical services to Hertfordshire Police as defined in a specific contract written by Hertfordshire Police ("the Contract"), which does not at this time, provide for putting a dedicated substance misuse team into each of the police stations served by the Contract”

“We do however take our duty of care for the welfare of detainees very seriously and provide medical care in custody which effectively triages our detainees to assess that they are fit to be detained and are kept safe.”