Angeline Phillips
21 Dec 2022 · Coroner Alan Walsh · Manchester West
This report repeats 1 earlier warning. See the linked reports.
The coroner's concerns
1. delayed police response to welfare incident
“1) During the Inquest evidence was heard that: - a) The Greater Manchester Police Incident Response Policy governed the grading of an Incident in relation to priority and the response time to an Incident. b) In relation to the grading of the lncid.ent relating to the Deceased, which was reported at 18.09 hours on the 29th of January 2021, the Incident was graded correctly as a Grade 2 Priority Response with a response time of 1 hour but a police officer only attended more than 8 hours after the”
2. risk of future deaths due to policy gaps
“I am concerned that unless the Greater Manchester Police Incident Response Policy is reviewed police officers will not attend Incidents within the timescales referred to in the Policy and there will be an opportunity to pass the responsibility to 3rd party agencies, which may lead to a risk that future deaths could occur unless action is taken”
Linked reports
Closely relatedConfidence 0.85 · high
Earlier report
“The timeliness of GMP's response, against a backdrop of lack of adherence to/use of the escalation and call grading protocols.”
This report
“In relation to the grading of the lncid.ent relating to the Deceased, which was reported at 18.09 hours on the 29th of January 2021, the Incident was graded correctly as a Grade 2 Priority Response with a response time of 1 hour but a police officer only attended more than 8 hours after the report of the Incident”
Responses
2022-0412-Response-from-Greater-Manchester-Police.pdf ↗· Greater Manchester Police
Stated action · 1st February 2022
“Greater Manchester Police (GMP) carried out a thorough review of the Incident Response Policy (IRP) following His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services issuing a formal cause of concern in September 2021, where it was identified that GMP was not responding appropriately to victims of crime and safeguarding vulnerable members of our communities. As a result, on 1st February 2022, GMP implemented the current IRP which incorporates the nationally recognised risk assessm”