Delayed police response to welfare incidents
Greater Manchester Police received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 15 Oct 2014 and 21 Dec 2022.
They came from 2 different coroners in 2 coroner areas. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
A published response was found for 1 of the 1 earlier reports, stating 2 specific actions.
The story, report by report
Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“The timeliness of GMP's response, against a backdrop of lack of adherence to/use of the escalation and call grading protocols.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Greater Manchester Police responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“The Operational Communications Branch (OCB) has undertaken a review of its Escalation Policy. The intention of this review, which is in its final stages, is to ensure the OCB works effectively with Divisions to enhance its ability to effectively identify areas of risk and then effectively manage the allocation of patrols to address that risk. In cases when it becomes apparent that resources are unavailable for allocation, the Escalation Policy will ensure the incident is brought to the attention”
Stated timescale: final stages
- 8 years 2 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.85 · higha different coroner
“In relation to the grading of the lncid.ent relating to the Deceased, which was reported at 18.09 hours on the 29th of January 2021, the Incident was graded correctly as a Grade 2 Priority Response with a response time of 1 hour but a police officer only attended more than 8 hours after the report of the Incident”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:gradingResponse
Greater Manchester Police responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“Greater Manchester Police (GMP) carried out a thorough review of the Incident Response Policy (IRP) following His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services issuing a formal cause of concern in September 2021, where it was identified that GMP was not responding appropriately to victims of crime and safeguarding vulnerable members of our communities. As a result, on 1st February 2022, GMP implemented the current IRP which incorporates the nationally recognised risk assessm”
Stated timescale: 1st February 2022
- All reports to Greater Manchester Police
Each row is one judged link between an earlier and a later report. Open a row to read both quotes, found word for word in the originals.
2014 → 2022Angeline Phillips8 years 2 months after Lucasz Lewandowski · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.85 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.85 · highBoth reports highlight delays in police attendance despite correct incident grading, pointing to shortcomings in response policies or protocols.
Lucasz Lewandowski · 15 Oct 2014
“The timeliness of GMP's response, against a backdrop of lack of adherence to/use of the escalation and call grading protocols.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Angeline Phillips · 21 Dec 2022
“In relation to the grading of the lncid.ent relating to the Deceased, which was reported at 18.09 hours on the 29th of January 2021, the Incident was graded correctly as a Grade 2 Priority Response with a response time of 1 hour but a police officer only attended more than 8 hours after the report of the Incident”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Stated action in the response to the earlier report
“The Operational Communications Branch (OCB) has undertaken a review of its Escalation Policy. The intention of this review, which is in its final stages, is to ensure the OCB works effectively with Divisions to enhance its ability to effectively identify areas of risk and then effectively manage the allocation of patrols to address that risk. In cases when it becomes apparent that resources are unavailable for allocation, the Escalation Policy will ensure the incident is brought to the attention”
Stated action · timescale: final stages
“The Operational Communications Branch (OCB) has undertaken a review of its Escalation Policy. The intention of this review, which is in its final stages, is to ensure the OCB works effectively with Divisions to enhance its ability to effectively identify areas of risk and then effectively manage the allocation of patrols to address that risk. In cases when it becomes apparent that resources are unavailable for allocation, the Escalation Policy will ensure the incident is brought to the attention”
Stated action · timescale: 1st February 2022
“Greater Manchester Police (GMP) carried out a thorough review of the Incident Response Policy (IRP) following His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services issuing a formal cause of concern in September 2021, where it was identified that GMP was not responding appropriately to victims of crime and safeguarding vulnerable members of our communities. As a result, on 1st February 2022, GMP implemented the current IRP which incorporates the nationally recognised risk assessm”
- Each report's concerns were extracted by Nemotron 3 Nano on Nebius Token Factory, each with a quote copied from the report.
- Concerns from reports to Greater Manchester Police at least six months apart were compared by meaning (Qwen3 embeddings) and wording (TF-IDF).
- The closest pairs were judged by Nemotron 3 Super with reasoning on. Only identical or closely related, with confidence of at least 0.70, are shown.
- Every quote was checked by code as an exact substring of the original text. Names of staff and family are redacted, and the deceased are named by report title only.
| Link | Meaning | Wording | Judge | Coroner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 → 2022 | 0.71 | 0.20 | Closely related · 0.85 | different |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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