Limited mental health triage support for police
South Wales Police received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 29 Sept 2023 and 29 Sept 2024.
They came from 1 coroner. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
No published response from South Wales Police was found for the earlier reports.
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“Following the withdrawal of the mental health triage support provided to the police by mental health nurses, the medically qualified sources of urgent support available to police officers to assist them to safeguard the public are limited to the mental health crisis teams.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ No published response from South Wales Police was found for this report.
- 1 year laterIdentical hazardConfidence 0.98 · high
“Following the withdrawal of the mental health triage support provided to the police by mental health nurses, the medically qualified sources of urgent support available to police officers to assist them to safeguard the public are limited to the mental health crisis teams.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:Followingwithdrawalmentalhealthtriagesupport
South Wales Police responded.Response (PDF) ↗
- All reports to South Wales 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.
2023 → 2024Leighton Dickens1 year after Leighton Dickens · same coronerIdentical hazardConfidence 0.98 · high
Identical hazardConfidence 0.98 · highBoth reports describe the loss of mental health triage nurse support leaving police reliant only on mental health crisis teams. They note the same limitations: crisis team availability, lack of clinically qualified tactical adviser, missing PARIS record access, and the absent '111 press 2' replacement.
Leighton Dickens · 29 Sept 2023
“Following the withdrawal of the mental health triage support provided to the police by mental health nurses, the medically qualified sources of urgent support available to police officers to assist them to safeguard the public are limited to the mental health crisis teams.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Leighton Dickens · 29 Sept 2024
“Following the withdrawal of the mental health triage support provided to the police by mental health nurses, the medically qualified sources of urgent support available to police officers to assist them to safeguard the public are limited to the mental health crisis teams.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
No published response from South Wales Police was found for this report.
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
- 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 South Wales 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 → 2024 | 0.93 | 0.90 | Identical · 0.98 | same |
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