FOI 0663-2023/24- Right care right person

Request:

Q1. Have any consultations been carried out/ are any being carried out internally (within North Yorkshire Police) regarding the implementation of RCRP? If so, please provide evidence and the outcomes of these consultations.

Q2. Have any consultations been carried out/ are any being carried out with external parties regarding the implementation of RCRP? If so, please provide evidence and the outcomes of these consultations

Q3. Before or during the implementation of RCRP, did North Yorkshire Police consider the potential impact of the programme on (a) people with mental illnesses and (b) people from ethnic minority backgrounds? If so, please provide evidence and any reports which were produced.

Q4. Were any equality impact assessments carried out by North Yorkshire Police before or during the implementation of RCRP? If so, please provide a copy of the assessments, their outcomes and details of how they were carried out.

Q5. Did North Yorkshire Police consider its public sector equality duty (section 149 Equality Act 2010) before or during the implementation of RCRP? If so, please provide evidence and any reports which were produced.

Q6. Please specify the number of detentions which took place under s.136 Mental Health Act 1983 each calendar year from 2016 to 2023 by North Yorkshire Police.

Q7. Please specify the number of times the emergency power under s.135 Mental Health Act 1983 was used each calendar year from 2016 to 2023 by North Yorkshire Police.

Q8. Were any policy, briefing or directions issued by North Yorkshire Police to emergency call handlers with regard to RCRP? If so, please provide these.

Q9. Were any policy, briefing or directions issued by North Yorkshire Police to police officers with regard to RCRP. If so, please provide these.

Response:

Extent of Searches to Locate Information

Following receipt of your request searches were conducted within North Yorkshire Police to locate

relevant information.

Decision

Your request for information below has now been considered. In respect of Section 1(1)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) we can neither confirm nor deny if North Yorkshire Police does or does not hold the information you have requested. It is estimated that the cost of complying with your request for information would exceed the “appropriate costs limit” under Section 12(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Section 12(2) allows a public authority to refuse a request where it estimates that it would exceed to appropriate limit to either comply with the request in its entirety or confirm or deny whether the requested information is held.

Due to the nature of our recording systems; the information requested, if held, is not in an easily retrievable format. To establish if any information relevant to your request is held by North Yorkshire Police, a manual review of various police systems across the requested time frame would be required to establish the number of times the emergency power under s.135 Mental Health Act 1983 was used. It is not known whether the information retrieved, if possible, would be an accurate representation or reliable set of data.

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 part 1-6 and 8-9 of your request if you resubmit and omit part 7. 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.