Recommendations - Cambridgeshire Constabulary, January 2021
Recommendation date: 15 January 2021
Response due: 12 March 2021
Published: 2 December 2021
Welfare and vulnerable people
This organisational learning was identified from an appeal relating to the arrest and detention of a woman in July 2019.
Recommendations (3)
Recommendation 1
Accepted
Recommendation
The IOPC recommends that Cambridgeshire Constabulary considers using an anonymised account of this case as a training scenario for custody staff at the Kings Lynn PIC. As a shared facility this issue is likely to arise more frequently than in … Read more
Force Response
Accepted action:
Passed to the custody training team for implementation.
Recommendation 2
Accepted
Recommendation
The IOPC recommends that Cambridgeshire Constabulary provides additional guidance to assist officers when making judgements about use of s136 and whether any associated offences are serious. This should cover situations where pursuit of the offence may, or may not, take … Read more
Force Response
Accepted action: Partly accepted - the force policy covers everything that the force believes is necessary to help officers make reasoned decisions; no examples need to be added to the policy.However, this investigation will be shared with the Learning and … Read more
Recommendation 3
Accepted
Recommendation
The IOPC recommends that Cambridgeshire Constabulary considers working with local health boards to amend their inter-agency agreement to enable a mental health assessment made by Norfolk health care professionals to be accepted by Cambridgeshire health boards and vice versa. The … Read more
Force Response
Accepted action: Passed to the Custody Manager of Cambridgeshire Constabulary so that they can be made aware that there is a difference in the Athena training of custody officers within Norfolk and that this will have an impact upon the … Read more