Recommendation - West Mercia Police, March 2020
Recommendation date: 5 March 2020
Response due: 30 April 2020
Published: 15 September 2020
Death and serious injury
The recommendation below arises from a Death or Serious Injury review by one of our Casework Managers of a police investigation into the circumstances in which a woman went missing while being spoken to by mental health professionals. West Mercia Police was informed and, after a search, the woman was found close to a river. She saw officers and entered the water. She was later found dead.
Recommendations (1)
Recommendation 1
Accepted
Recommendation
The IOPC recommends that West Mercia Police revises its risk assessment to consider the availability and distribution of water kits, including whether they may be carried in response vehicles. As a result of reviewing a DSI investigation it became apparent … Read more
Force Response
Accepted action: We welcome the learning recommendations from the IOPC. Given the large geographical area, and number of response police vehicles, a decision was made to locate the water kits at strategic positions across the force area, rather than have … Read more