Lack of suicide intervention training for front line police staff
Sussex Police received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 7 Feb 2020 and 24 Sept 2024.
They came from 1 coroner in 2 coroner areas. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
No published response from Sussex Police was found for the earlier reports.
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“provided a statement about the training given to police officers in the area of suicide intervention. stated that he had created a training package for new recruits.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ No published response from Sussex Police was found for this report.
- 4 years 8 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderate
“The police have stated that mental health training has been a particular focus for some time. Despite this an officer with a training role was unable to explain what training that was and when they had received it.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:policestatedtraining
Sussex Police responded.Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗
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2020 → 2024Ryan Ouslem4 years 8 months after Mark Mallinson · same coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderate
Closely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderateBoth reports highlight that specialist mental‑health/suicide‑intervention training for police officers is not being consistently provided or mandated across the force. The core issue is the lack of comprehensive, ongoing training for all front‑line staff.
Mark Mallinson · 7 Feb 2020
“provided a statement about the training given to police officers in the area of suicide intervention. stated that he had created a training package for new recruits.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Ryan Ouslem · 24 Sept 2024
“The police have stated that mental health training has been a particular focus for some time. Despite this an officer with a training role was unable to explain what training that was and when they had received it.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
No published response from Sussex Police was found for this report.
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- 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 Sussex 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 → 2024 | 0.72 | 0.10 | Closely related · 0.80 | same |
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