Recommendation - Metropolitan Police Service, December 2025
Recommendation date: 15 December 2025
Response due: 9 February 2026
Published: 10 February 2026
Welfare and vulnerable people
Custody and detention
We identified organisational learning following an independent investigation into a man's serious decline in health while detained by the Metropolitan Police Service in 2023. During the course of this investigation, it was established that after police officers had left the man at hospital, they were unable to obtain updates on his condition and had to return to the hospital to do this.
Recommendations (1)
Recommendation 1
Accepted
Recommendation
The IOPC recommends that the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) review relevant policies and/or procedures to ensure they make clear the need to set up a password with nursing staff when officers have transported a medical emergency to hospital. A password … Read more
Force Response
Accepted The MPS accepts this IOPC recommendation. The following wording has been added to the MPS General Investigation Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) under the heading ‘Victims & Witnesses, and Suspects’: ‘For any suspects, victims or witnesses involved in an investigation … Read more