responsibilities of partner agencies. Catalogue of Services – Agreement that services will support Staffordshire Police in allowing Officers/ to to gain an ‘shadow’ understanding of partners roles responsibilities. Reducing the number of people in Implement Community Triage Staffordshire Police, Health Staffordshire will have a County Custody under Section 136 and by setting in the South of the County and Commissioners wide Community Triage facility an ambition for a fast-track process that April 2015 for 12 months with that will be adopted as ‘business a view to evaluation and as either provides an assessment or arranges transfer to a health based place continual funding. Section 136 detentions will of safety for individuals whenever a police continue to reduce. Officers still use 136 as a Information sharing will continue cell is used. quick fix to detain a person, to improve. training needs to be carried out to reduce this further Commissioners and providers should Needs to be an agenda item Staffordshire Police, No individual will present at a make sure there is accurate and detailed on the Operational Section Health, Health Custody site unless under data showing why and how often police 136 Groups. Commissioners circumstances. ‘exceptional Reduction in inappropriate use of cells are used as places of safety. Local partners should also review each Work has already been done Police Custody sites. individual case where a police cell has to cleanse the data and re- engineer processes to obtain Lessons learned used to improve been used, to make sure the use was appropriate and to see whether there are data that was not available. service delivery. lessons to be learned for the future. This has all been catalogued. Proposal for the future is to The Force will be able to view create a Mental Health the data self service. The page – information page on the will still be managed by the Delivering Our Mission Mental Health Lead and SDU Performance Hub Section 136 Policy to be Author - Health Details regarding approach area should have a local protocol in reviewed and implemented. should be and a point of place, agreed by NHS commissioners, the Parties involved reference for all involved. police force, the ambulance service, and – Staffordshire Police, Health social services. This should describe the
responsibilities of partner agencies. Catalogue of Services – Agreement that services will support Staffordshire Police in allowing Officers/ to ‘shadow’ to gain an understanding of partners roles responsibilities. Reducing the number of people in Custody under Section 136 and by setting an ambition for a fast-track process that either provides an assessment or arranges transfer to a health based place of safety for individuals whenever a police cell is used. Implement Community Triage in the South of the County April 2015 for 12 months with a view to evaluation and continual funding. Officers still use 136 as a quick fix to detain a person, training needs to be carried out to reduce this further Staffordshire Police, Health and Commissioners Staffordshire will have a County wide Community Triage facility that will be adopted as ‘business as Section 136 detentions will continue to reduce. Information sharing will continue to improve. Commissioners and providers should make sure there is accurate and detailed data showing why and how often police cells are used as places of safety. Local partners should also review each individual case where a police cell has been used, to make sure the use was appropriate and to see whether there are lessons to be learned for the future. Needs to be an agenda item on the Operational Section 136 Groups. Work has already been done to cleanse the data and re- engineer processes to obtain data that was not available. This has all been catalogued. Proposal for the future is to create a Mental Health information page on the Delivering Our Mission Performance Hub Staffordshire Police, Health, Health Commissioners No individual will present at a Custody site unless under ‘exceptional circumstances. Reduction in inappropriate use of Police Custody sites. Lessons learned used to improve service delivery. The Force will be able to view the data – self service. The page will still be managed by the Mental Health Lead and SDU area should have a local protocol in place, agreed by NHS commissioners, the police force, the ambulance service, and social services. This should describe the Section 136 Policy to be reviewed and implemented. Author - Health Parties involved – Staffordshire Police, Health Details regarding approach should be and a point of reference for all involved.