Recommendation - Avon and Somerset Constabulary, February 2025
IOPC reference
Recommendations
The IOPC recommends that Avon and Somerset Constabulary take steps to ensure officers carrying out voluntary attendance interviews can access relevant guidance and support on suspect management, in particular how to mitigate the risk of self-harm and suicide in cases regarding allegations of sexual offences involving children.
Accepted
The guidance is on pocketbook, the intranet for Avon and Somerset Constabulary. We have added a number of additional key words on the system that help to locate the document such as ‘suicide.’ It is now much easier to locate when searching. In addition to this, the guidance has been publicised in force communications, including the weekly publication of good to know, need to know and will also be shared in the next edition of The Standard – the PSD newsletter.