FOI 0668.2024/25- Naloxone usage

Request:

Q1. Are any operational North Yorkshire Police officers trained to carry / administer Naloxone while conducting operational duties?
Q2. If any officers carry Naloxone how many officers in North Yorkshire are trained?
Q3. If officers are trained to administer Naloxone what date was this brought into force
Q4. At what expense is it to equip officers with Naloxone
Q5. If there are no officers trained are there plans to equip officers with Naloxone?
Q6. If officers are trained to administer Naloxone how many times has this been deployed?
Q7. If Naloxone has been deployed how successful have the results been?
Q8. If officers have been trained to administer Naloxone has there been an increase in demand for calls relating to drug overdose and have other services such as NHS relied on police attendance at an increased rate since it’s implementation?
Q9. How many officers in each of the North Yorkshire Police districts are trained with Naloxone? (if any)
Q10. Approximately how many officers are equipped with Naloxone within North Yorkshire at any one time? (If any)
Q11. What training is required and how long does it take to train officers in the safe deployment of Naloxone?
Q12. Are the officers who are trained with Naloxone in specialist roles such as operations? EG: Firearms (tac med)
Q13. Are there any plans to incorporate the training of Naloxone into police officer's mandatory annual first aid course?

Response:

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Q1. Yes

Q2. Currently 193,  however training is ongoing.

Q3. 23 April 2024

Q4. No cost to NYP

Q5. N/A

Q6. 13

Q7. Of those 13 administrations, at least 8 have had a direct positive impact on the health of the person they were dealing with.

Q8. From officer feedback, we haven’t seen a reliance from YAS for NYP officers to take full responsibility of a situation where people are suffering from an OD. We have also received written assurances from YAS that they will not downgrade their response to potential OD incidents where police are already on scene, as they know that the Naloxone we carry, only has a short lifespan before a patient may go back into an OD situation.

Q9. 64 in city command, 57 in county and 35 coast. Please note these figures are from our business insight dashboard and only accounts for officers that are recorded on the system.

Q10. This varies on a day to day basis - a search was carried out to see who is trained, and on duty, and the system is saying that there are 112 officers on duty today that are trained to administer Naloxone, however, this does not take into account that some of these officers are student officers, or Special Constables, career breaks etc. If you take these out of the equation, then there will be around 50 officers on duty today trained to administer Naloxone.

Q11. Training takes approx. 45 mins, and it focuses on why NYP are rolling out Naloxone (mainly due to the increased threat of synthetic opioids), what Naloxone is, how to ID the signs of someone in an overdose situation, how to administer Naloxone, and how to properly record this when you return to the station.

Q12. The officers are not in specialist roles.

Q13. Awaiting national decision on this. However, we already have added a section on how to ID someone in an overdose situation, and a section on Naloxone, and what it is, into officers first aid training.

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.