Metropolitan Police

“The MPS will now request a weekly Community Consultation Meeting between AMHPs, MH policing teams, Neighbourhood policing teams, Crisis Teams, and Home Treatment Teams (HTT) to discuss those people who may be reaching the threshold for an assessment/S135 warrant application.”

“HMCTS disputes the evidence presented to the Inquest that a 2-week timescale applied to obtaining a slot for a wa”

“The MPS will now request a weekly Community Consultation Meeting between AMHPs, MH policing teams, Neighbourhood policing teams, Crisis Teams, and Home Treatment Teams (HTT) to discuss those people who may be reaching the threshold for an assessment/S135 warrant application.”

“I offer our apologies for the delay in submitting this response to your report dated 18 February 2025. Following some unfortunate internal misdirection the report was only received in the correct part of the MOJ in June and we are grateful to have been allowed time to investigate before providing our response.”

“The MPS will shortly be introducing a Merlin Toolkit, which will provide advice and guidance on the circumstances in which reports should be completed. This also references the Vulnerability Assessment Framework (VAF) which should be used as the basis for assessment for all officers.”

“request that the working group, driven by Met training, review the attendance of officers at mandatory ELS training and review the systems in place for supervisors to monitor attendance”

“The MPS are requested to review the training provided to staff in relation to the role of the safety officer in a street setting and to consider whether a reminder of the importance of the safety officer role, in the street setting, should be issued to staff (by way of bulletin or otherwise)”

“Future restraint lessons will reference the revised Module 12 of the National Personal Safety Manual (NPSM) which was presented by Inspector Collett during the Inquest as the final draft”

“The MPS is requested to review the guidance and procedures in place for officers, in relation to the use of CS spray where a person is believed to be holding items in their mouth”

“The MPS has invested significantly in safeguarding focused police officer posts as part of the new BCU model, which has resulted in an increase of dedicated MPU officers.”

“the MPS Driving School introduced a three to five year refresher training course for all response car, covert advanced car and advanced car drivers; this is delivered by a suitably trained driving instructor and complies with the nationally recognised APP. By October 2020, this group of drivers will have received refresher training by the MPS Driving School which will complete the five year cycle.”

“The regime in place at the time comprised of 'check tests' being conducted by qualified officers. iy completed this in line with the then policy.”

“Officers have always been encouraged to read Standing Operational Procedures (SOPs) to help ensure their understanding and compliance with policy and best practice.”

“the Officer [name redacted] Programme (OST), which is pass/fail and mandatory for all officers below the rank of superintendent, reinforces each of the significant areas of information during the instructor-led modules.”

“The Officer [name redacted], which has now been replaced by the national Personal Safety Manual (owned by the College of Policing), has always been primarily a trainer resource, albeit available to all MPS officers on the MPS intranet.”

“the MPS has reformatted its SOPs into much shorter, and more user-friendly "Toolkits". The "Toolkits" have been designed to make information easier to locate and comprehend.”

“The Independent Medical Science Advisory Panel (IMSAP) is an ad hoc panel of leading independent healthcare professionals who advise the National Policing Lead for Personal Safety Training on medical matters relating to physical restraint and self- defence techniques and equipment”

“Work in this area includes the production of the 'Safer Restraint DVD by the MPS in partnership with South London and Maudsl”

“The PER must be completed before any external movement or transfer of detainees. When correctly completed, the information imparted is expected to help prevent suicide, self-harm and other serious incidents from occurring, by alerting partner agencies to potential risks”

“the importance of this functionality will be part of the training that is set out below, with an intended completion date of 31 March 2016.”