decision making through Triage Teams, SPA’s. Access to such plans Staffordshire Police through specialised units - Integrated Offender such as IOM Management view. Care plans to be made accessible and can be placed on Citizen Focus Toolkit, Staffordshire Police SPIN and tasking for Staff to - Justice Services Objective Action Led by Outcomes Police officers should not have to within Criminal will present at a Address availability of beds Justice. Custody site unless under consider using police custody as an Pan Staffordshire. Agreement circumstances. alternative just because there is a lack of ‘exceptional local mental health provision, or needs to be in place between Staffordshire Police, the three hospitals in order to Reduction in inappropriate use of unavailability at certain times of the day Health, Commissioners utilise all available beds. Police Custody sites. or night. To support this aim, it is essential that NHS places of safety are available and equipped to meet the demand in their area. The signatories of the Concordat will work together to achieve a significant reduction in the inappropriate use of police custody suites as places of safety. Police officers should undertake will be able to New Recruit Training identify risk and vulnerabilities appropriate training, to enable them to and will be able to make recognise risk and vulnerability and identify the need for health care. This Targeted Training to specific Staffordshire Police, decisions based on this training units including Custody, in way of identifying the most training will support the police to decide Health, Voluntary Sector Contact Services, CADRE, appropriate pathway for the whether individuals should be detained Frontline Response. individual and the most relevant section 136, or whether they can be service. helped in some other way. Training Training by Health service should also cover the roles and
decision making through Triage Teams, SPA’s. Access to such plans through specialised units such as IOM Staffordshire Police - Integrated Offender Management Care plans to be made accessible and can be placed on Citizen Focus Toolkit, SPIN and tasking for Staff to view. Staffordshire Police - Justice Services Objective Action Led by Outcomes Police officers should not have to consider using police custody as an alternative just because there is a lack of local mental health provision, or unavailability at certain times of the day or night. To support this aim, it is essential that NHS places of safety are available and equipped to meet the demand in their area. The signatories of the Concordat will work together to achieve a significant reduction in the inappropriate use of police custody suites as places of safety. Police officers should undertake appropriate training, to enable them to recognise risk and vulnerability and identify the need for health care. This training will support the police to decide whether individuals should be detained section 136, or whether they can be helped in some other way. Training should also cover the roles and Address availability of beds Pan Staffordshire. Agreement needs to be in place between the three hospitals in order to utilise all available beds. New Recruit Training Targeted Training to specific units including Custody, Contact Services, CADRE, Frontline Response. Training by Health service within Criminal Justice. Staffordshire Police, Health, Commissioners Staffordshire Police, Health, Voluntary Sector will present at a Custody site unless under ‘exceptional circumstances. Reduction in inappropriate use of Police Custody sites. will be able to identify risk and vulnerabilities and will be able to make decisions based on this training in way of identifying the most appropriate pathway for the individual and the most relevant service.
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