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Pre-inquest brief

Limited mental health triage support for police

Organisation: South Wales Police · Generated: 26 Oct 2026

Recurance · recurance.com/chains/71db3ea49e9616d0

The earlier warning

Leighton Dickens · 29 Sept 2023 · David Regan, South Wales Central

“Following the withdrawal of the mental health triage support provided to the police by mental health nurses, the medically qualified sources of urgent support available to police officers to assist them to safeguard the public are limited to the mental health crisis teams.”

judiciary.uk/…/leighton-dickens-prevention-of-future-deaths-rep…

What was promised

No published response from South Wales Police was found for the earlier reports.

What recurred

  • 29 Sept 2024 · Leighton Dickens · David Regan · Identical hazard · confidence 0.98 (high)

The clearest link, quoted from both reports:

Earlier · Leighton Dickens · 29 Sept 2023

“Following the withdrawal of the mental health triage support provided to the police by mental health nurses, the medically qualified sources of urgent support available to police officers to assist them to safeguard the public are limited to the mental health crisis teams.”

Later · Leighton Dickens · 29 Sept 2024

“Following the withdrawal of the mental health triage support provided to the police by mental health nurses, the medically qualified sources of urgent support available to police officers to assist them to safeguard the public are limited to the mental health crisis teams.”

What happened next

No web check of the stated actions has been published for this chain.

Every quote is verified word for word against the original report on judiciary.uk. A link shows that a similar concern was raised again, not why. It is not a finding about any organisation or person.

Source: Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, Open Government Licence v3.0.