National recommendation - National Police Chiefs' Council, December 2022
Recommendation date: 6 December 2022
Response due: 31 January 2023
Published: 26 April 2023
Child sexual abuse
We identified national organisational learning from a death or serious injury report where a man was arrested for sexual assault of a victim under the age of 13. Following bail, the man took his own life.
Recommendations (1)
Recommendation 1
Accepted
Recommendation
The IOPC recommends that the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) shares the learning from IOPC cases with force bail leads, asking them to review their bail policies, procedures and training to ensure that risk assessments are conducted when suspects of … Read more
Force Response
Accepted action:
This learning recommendation will be circulated on ChiefsNet for all Chief Constables to consider for wider learning and also shared with custody leads nationally whose details are held by the NPCC Custody Portfolio.