Recommendation - Avon and Somerset Constabulary, February 2025
Recommendation date: 18 February 2025
Response due: 15 April 2025
Published: 12 June 2025
Child sexual abuse
Recommendations (1)
Recommendation 1
Accepted
Recommendation
The IOPC recommends that Avon and Somerset Constabulary take steps to ensure officers carrying out voluntary attendance interviews can access relevant guidance and support on suspect management, in particular how to mitigate the risk of self-harm and suicide in cases … Read more
Force Response
Accepted The guidance is on pocketbook, the intranet for Avon and Somerset Constabulary. We have added a number of additional key words on the system that help to locate the document such as ‘suicide.’ It is now much easier to … Read more