Greater Manchester Integrated
Police Custody Healthcare & Wider
L&D Service
Bethan Dearden
Programme Manager
Office of the Police Crime Commissioner
Kirsty Simpson
5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
My Role
• Development and trial of the wider use of out of court disposals
and alternatives to custody
• Navigation of the CJS in Greater Manchester including alignment
to strategic offender health and devolution developments in order
to secure reductions in reoffending.
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Work in partnership with the GMP Criminal Justice Section and
Custody Suites to develop a Public Service Reform approach to
diversion from offending and the criminal justice system.
•
Work in partnership with the GMP Criminal Justice Section and
Custody Suites to develop a Public Service Reform approach to
diversion from offending and the criminal justice system.
Custody Suites
Custody Suite
Local Authority Area
Ashton
Tameside and Oldham
Bolton
Bolton
Bury
Bury and Rochdale
Central Park & Longsight
City of Manchester and South Manchester
Cheadle Heath
Stockport, Trafford, Airport
Swinton
Salford & Trafford
Wigan
Wigan
Developing a consistent GMCA standard for services for vulnerable people and or people with complex needs, who are at the start of the
prosecution process. Ensuring that at the point of arrest there is a common offer, currently services provide an inconsistent approaches
across GM resulting in a 'postcode lottery' for offenders .
Development and trial of the wider
use of out of court disposals and
alternatives to custody
Youth Justice Out of
Court Disposals
Female Offenders and
Triage
MVOP
Navigation of the CJS in Greater
Manchester including alignment to
strategic offender health and
devolution developments in order
to secure reductions in reoffending.
Work in partnership with the
GMP Criminal Justice Section
and Custody Suites to develop a
Public Service Reform approach
to diversion from offending and
the criminal justice system.
Common standard for
commissioned services
Crisis and Community
Youth Justice
Intervention/ Early Help
NPS
Accommodation
strategy
DIP
Public Service Reform
Alcohol Diversion
Restorative
Interventions
Pathways to support
services.
Male Triage
To support a business case for Justice Reinvestment for early intervention and prevention.
To demonstrate the impact on reduction in demand on policing
To consider opportunities for bids to the Home Office Transformation Fund
Engage with and develop
voluntary and community
sector offers across GM through
the creation of a service scope
and delivery options
Current provision for
Males.
Gap analysis
Workshop event with
partners
What is the new service ?
As well as providing healthcare as we have seen
before in GMP custody, the new service will also
provide screening and assessment of vulnerabilities
e.g. mental health, substance misuse, learning
difficulties and social issues such as housing) along
with brokerage into appropriate services. This is
known as Liaison & Diversion and many other
custody suites across the country have been
implementing this in police custody suites.
Police Custody Triage and Liason and
Diversion
Overall aims
In Custody:
• To provide medically safe detention, thus reducing deaths in custody and
adverse incidents
• To meet the forensic requirements of Greater Manchester Police
Liaison and Diversion:
• The facilitation of the diversion of individuals, where appropriate, out of
the criminal justice system and into health, social care, education and
training, or other supportive services (pre-custody, custody and court)
• Improved access to healthcare and support services for vulnerable
individuals and a reduction in health inequalities (pre-custody, custody
and court)
• Liaison between healthcare and support services to deliver a coordinated
response, ensuring that the needs of individuals are met (pre-custody,
custody and court)
Police Custody Triage and Liason and
Diversion
Discussion
• 1. What do we think we do well/works well
now?
• 2. What could we do better? What would we
change and why?
• 3. What can we do ourselves and what might
we need devolution to help us with?
• 4. What could those specific Devo asks be have we considered the risks?
Police Custody Triage and Liason and
Diversion
Links to Family Support questions
1. How does current provision (Offender Management, Youth Justice,
Prisons, Courts and Custody) currently interact with early
intervention models in your district for complex individuals /
families?
2. What do we want this to look like?
3. How will we make this happen?
Police Custody Triage and Liason and
Diversion