2025 28069 Probationary PCs - Training - 999 calls and NDM - suicide policies

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Calls for Service:
For each of the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

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Total calls for service [101/999]
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Total number of call related to ‘mental health’
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Total number of calls related to ‘suicide
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Total number of ‘safe and well checks’ per year.
Recruitment and retention:
For each of the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
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Total number of police officers recruited as student officers each year
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Total number of resignations/dismissals from those recruited in the first 24 months of service

Training:
For each of the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
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Total number hours allocated to National Decision Model (NDM) Training for student officers in their first 24 months service.
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Is there an assessment process that assesses student officers’ decision making in the first 24 months service.
If yes – please provide details of the assessment process used.
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Does your force have NDM assessors – specifically tasked with reviewing decision making of student officers making in the first 24 months service?
If no, is this part of the Police Action Checklist (or equivalent) for student officers with their tutor constable? e.
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Does your force routinely review student officers’ decision making to ensure it is accurate, consistent and effective.
If yes, please provide the details of the review process and explain the methodology by which decisions are considered accurate, consistent and effective.
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How many training sessions, by breakdown of mandatory training and additional training have been delivered to student officers on mental ill health, suicide, and suicide prevention in the first 24 months service.
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How many training sessions, by breakdown of mandatory training and additional training have been delivered to student officers on the college of policing suicide and bereavement response in the first 24 months service?
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Does your force train ‘preventable harm’ to student officers in the first 24 months of service? If yes, please provide details of the training delivered and the learning outcomes.

Procedure:
For each of the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
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Does your force have a standalone suicide prevention policy? If yes, please provide details of that policy or a copy of it.
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Was your force engaged in the Department of Health and Social Care National Partnership Agreement: Right Care, Right Person (“RCRP”)?
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Has your force engaged with the Crisis Care Concordat’ (“CCC”) that existed since 2014 to ensure partner agencies worked together to deliver a ‘high quality response’ in cases of mental illness?
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Does your force operate a mental health triage care (or equivalent)
If yes, please provide details of the date the unit became effective, the shift pattern hours and the total number of officers allocated to this unit

Prevention of future death reports:
For each of the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
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Total number of prevention of future death reports issued by the Coroner to the Chief Constable
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Of those reports, the total number that related to a suicide incident.
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Of those reports, the total number that related to a death following police contact.

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