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Request:
Calls for Service: (For each of the years 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023)
Q1. Total calls for service 101 999
Q2. Total number of call related to mental health
Q3. Total number of calls related to suicide
Q4.Total number of safe and well checks per year.
Recruitment and retention (For each of the years 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023)
Q5. Total number of police officers recruited as student officers each year
Q6. Total number of resignations/dismissals from those recruited in the first 24 months of service
Training (For each of the years 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023)
Q7. Total number hours allocated to National Decision Model (NDM) Training for student officers in their first 24 months service.
Q8. Is there an assessment process that assesses student officers decision making in the first 24 months service.
Q8a. If yes please provide details of the assessment process used.
Q9. Does your force have NDM assessors specifically tasked with reviewing decision making of student officers making in the first 24 months service?
Q9a. If no, is this part of the Police Action Checklist (or equivalent) for student officers with their tutor constable?
Q10. Does your force routinely review student officers’ decision making to ensure it is accurate, consistent and effective.
Q10a. If yes, please provide the details of the review process and explain the methodology by which decisions are considered accurate, consistent and effective.
Q11. How many training sessions, by breakdown of mandatory training and additional training have been delivered to student officers on mental ill health, suicide, and suicide prevention in the first 24 months service.
Q12. How many training sessions, by breakdown of mandatory training and additional training have been delivered to student officers on the college of policing suicide and bereavement response in the first 24 months service?
Q13. Does your force train preventable harm to student officers in the first 24 months of service? If yes, please provide details of the training delivered and the learning outcomes.
Procedure (For each of the years 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023)
Q14. Does your force have a standalone suicide prevention policy? If yes, please provide details of that policy or a copy of it.
Q15. Was your force engaged in the Department of Health and Social Care National Partnership Agreement: Right Care, Right Person RCRP?
Q16. Has your force engaged with the Crisis Care Concordat’ CCC that existed since 2014 to ensure partner agencies worked together to deliver a high quality response in cases of mental illness?
Q17. Does your force operate a mental health triage care (or equivalent)
Q17a. If yes, please provide details of the date the unit became effective, the shift pattern hours and the total number of officers allocated to this unit
Prevention of future death reports (For each of the years 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023)
Q18. Total number of prevention of future death reports issued by the Coroner to the Chief Constable
Q19. Of those reports, the total number that related to a suicide incident.
Q20.Of those reports, the total number that related to a death following police contact
Response:
Following receipt of your request searches were conducted within North Yorkshire Police to locate relevant information.
Decision
I am not obliged to provide you with a response to your request pursuant to Section 12(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the Act). Please note that when one part of your request falls under Section 12, we are not obliged to review the rest of the questions and the whole request is therefore exempt.
Section 12(1) applies to your request as the cost of complying with your request is above the amount to which we are legally required to respond i.e. the cost of identifying and retrieving any relevant information exceeds the ‘appropriate level’ as stated in the Freedom of Information (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004.
Due to the nature of our recording systems the information requested, if held, is not in an easily retrievable format. Our information retrieval process generally relies on a computer ran report which captures any information recorded upon the surface of a record or within specified fields. Where relevant information is held deeper in the record, or outside of a specified field, a manual assessment is required to retrieve that information.
In relation to Q7, in order to retrieve the requested information, it would be necessary to manually review the relevant courses for the first 2 years to be able to establish the number of hours allocated to the National Decision Model. In relation to Q11 a manual review would be needed of all relevant additional training that is provided to establish which are that related to mental health, suicide and suicide prevention, which would exceed the time limit allowed under the Act.
Pursuant to Section 17(5) of the Freedom of Information Act this letter acts as a Refusal Notice.
Pursuant to Section 16 of the Act I am required to offer you advice and assistance with regarding to refining your request to within the ‘appropriate limit’ (time/cost limit). However, we may be able to provide some information for the rest of your request if you resubmit and omit Q7 & Q11. If you wish to discuss this please do not hesitate to contact me.
Please note that systems used for recording information are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. It should be noted therefore that this force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other responses you may receive.