National recommendation - National Police Chiefs' Council, May 2022
Recommendation date: 5 May 2022
Response due: 30 June 2022
Published: 26 September 2023
Death and serious injury
We identified national organisational learning from a death or serious injury review. The case relates to an incident in which a man escaped from the rear cage of a moving police van and consequently, broke his wrist.
Recommendations (1)
Recommendation 1
Accepted
Recommendation
The IOPC recommends that the NPCC should communicate to police chiefs, custody leads and fleet leads the importance of regularly conducting safety checks of cage van doors to ensure locking mechanisms are in working order. This recommendation follows a death … Read more
Force Response
Recommendation accepted: This learning recommendation along with the “actions to be taken” will be circulated on ChiefsNet for all Chief Constables to consider for wider learning. - Since this DSI; Surrey and Sussex Joint Transport Services (JTS) have implemented additional … Read more