Recommendations - West Yorkshire Police, June 2020
Recommendation date: 16 June 2020
Response due: 11 August 2020
Published: 6 October 2020
Welfare and vulnerable people
Whilst a resident in a childrens home the complainant was reported to police as a missing person on a number of occasions. Police would often take no action to locate her. IOPC have established that she was often graded as "unauthorised absence", which was a category in the force policy at that time which authorised police to not to undertake enquiries to locate the person.
Recommendations (3)
Recommendation 1
Accepted
Recommendation
The IOPC recommends that as a part of the ongoing West Yorkshire Police (WYP) review of its missing from home policy, WYP should consider clearly defining which officer has the responsibility of conducting research of information systems (eg. Police National … Read more
Force Response
Accepted action: I can confirm that the recommendations will be incorporated into the Missing Policy rewrite which is currently ongoing and also how WYP introduces NMM2 as there's functionality and procedural guidance WYP can write into NMM2 and training products … Read more
Recommendation 2
Accepted
Recommendation
The IOPC recommends that as a part of the ongoing West Yorkshire Police (WYP) review of its missing from home policy, WYP should consider directing that once an officer has taken a missing from home report they should liaise with … Read more
Force Response
Accepted action: I can confirm that the recommendations will be incorporated into the Missing Policy rewrite which is currently ongoing and also how WYP introduces NMM2 as there s functionality and procedural guidance WYP can write into NMM2 and training … Read more
Recommendation 3
Accepted
Recommendation
The IOPC recommends that as a part of the ongoing West Yorkshire Police (WYP) review of its missing from home policy, WYP should stipulate which supervisor has command and control of a missing from home report. That officer should record … Read more
Force Response
Accepted action: I can confirm that the recommendations will be incorporated into the Missing Policy rewrite which is currently ongoing and also how WYP introduces NMM2 as there s functionality and procedural guidance WYP can write into NMM2 and training … Read more