Recommendation - Cheshire Constabulary, December 2022
Recommendation date: 6 December 2022
Response due: 31 January 2023
Published: 20 February 2023
Death and serious injury
We identified organisational learning from a Death or serious injury review where several calls to the police expressed concern for a man's welfare. One of the calls exceeded its target response time, due to other incidents on the area, but no attempts were made to obtain resources from another unit to respond.
Recommendations (1)
Recommendation 1
Accepted
Recommendation
The IOPC recommends that Cheshire Constabulary should ensure that the procedures for call handlers to escalate incidents are set out clearly in force policy. This follows an IOPC review of a Serious Injury investigation, where a man took an overdose … Read more
Force Response
Accepted action: Cheshire Constabulary accepts that an escalation policy/procedure should be clear to staff working in the Force Control Room (FCC). We currently operate under a ‘no borders’ response working practice where we risk assess incidents and dispatch officers regardless … Read more