Medical Care – Custody (1005A/20)
Request
Q1. Who is your current supplier of Force Medical Examiner to Custody Suites, to include Forensic Medical Examiners and Custody Nurses?
Q2. When does your current contract expire for the supply of these services / medical personnel?
Q3. What is the annual cost of this contract to supply FMEs and Custody Nurses?
Q4. Who is responsible for the service standards and maintenance of this contract?
Q5. How many times in the last 12 months has your contract provider failed to provide an FME or Custody Nurse for any given shift (12 hour coverage period)?
Q6. Do you use agencies to provide Forensic Medical Service personnel in the event of staff shortages?
Q7. In the Event Of Impersonation Of Medical Healthcare Practioner that is not Qualified or First Aid Trained at that current moment in time. What Action is to be taken and Who Investigate the situation.
Response
Please find attached our response.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting those data.
The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when those data are used.
If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.