Rosario Cordero-Sanz
29 Oct 2018 · Coroner ME Hassell · London Inner (North)
The coroner's concerns
1. lack of tablets for special police officers
“MPS special police officers are not issued with tablets as regular officers are, yet the three on duty who attended on Friday night / Saturday morning were given one of the police vans that is not equipped with an on board computer. This meant that they could not check details on police computer systems themselves. Instead, they had to radio for assistance.”
2. lack of mental health assessment and communication
“The three police officers did not appear to have an in depth understanding of the misper process. 2 - They did not (save for one who had attended such calls before) appear to have an in depth understanding of the s136 Mental Health Act / mental health potential issues.”
3. lack of awareness of high risk missing person status
“The three special police officers who attended late that Friday evening / early Saturday morning were described as kind, and clearly demonstrated concern, but ultimately they did not know that they were dealing with a high risk missing person. Without tablets or a mobile data terminal, they had no means of checking this themselves.”
4. inadequate CAD search capability
“There was not a full understanding among the CAD operators of how to search with only part of a name e.g. CORDERO* as a wild card. This seems a significant omission in the understanding of those fulfilling that role.”
Responses
2018-0307-Response-by-Metropolitan-Police.pdf ↗· Metropolitan Police Service
Stated action · November 2018
“the MPS committed to the purchase and issuing of one hundred tablet devices, to be used as pool devices for MSC officers. The allocation of tablets across the MPS has been designated according to budgetary and operational demands. The roll out of these devices was completed in November 2018 and they have now been evenly distributed within frontline policing across the footprint of the MPS.”