Police contact with a woman before her death and a subsequent complaint about the handling of linked allegations – Cleveland Police, August 2018
Recommendation date: 9 October 2020
Response due: 4 December 2020
Published: 10 December 2020
Welfare and vulnerable people
On 29 August 2018, Cleveland police commenced an investigation into the death of a woman. Cleveland Police arrested the woman’s partner on suspicion of murder who has since been convicted of this offence. Cleveland Police reviewed the police contact involving the woman and her partner and located the first report of concern for the woman recorded on 22 May 2018. From this time, up to the date of the woman’s death, several more incidents were located involving her and her partner. Cleveland Police also located a report of two sexual assaults and a report of rape made by another woman against the deceased woman’s partner in January 2018 and March 2018. As a result of their review, Cleveland Police identified concerns in these instances of contact between police, the deceased woman, her partner and the third woman.Cleveland Police made a conduct referral to us on 30 August 2018. On 3 …
Recommendations (1)
Recommendation 1
Accepted
Recommendation
The IOPC recommends that Cleveland Police should implement a formal process for feeding back relevant information from Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) meetings to staff within the Protecting Vulnerable People (PVP) unit. During the misconduct interviews for two officers … Read more
Force Response
Accepted action: This recommendation is accepted and we already have a number of activities underway to address this. The MARAC process is currently under review in its entirety with a view to streamlining the process, ensuring that officers have ready … Read more