Cornwall review

Devon and Cornwall Police to carry out an audit to establish if prosecution advice files, containing allegations of indictable only offences, are being referred to the Crown Prosecution Service for a charging decision.

Devon and Cornwall Police to take account of recommendations 1, 2, 4, 6 and 10 of the HMIC 2014 report on ‘Devon and Cornwall Police’s approach to tackling Domestic Abuse’; to review the SODAIT Training Plan to establish whether team members, as part of their continued professional development, can receive additional training in respect of increased understanding of ‘specialist’ groups e.g. LGBT and older male victims; and establish whether domestic violence and abuse incidents involving members of LGBT communities and particularly older male victims, could be introduced into the Police Training Programme, for all police officers and police staff from call handlers to responders.

AMHS Organisation to consider how pertinent risk information held in [redacted] for service users who are not on [redacted], is easily available to clinical staff, if the service user is re-referred to Adult Mental Health Services.

AMHS Organisation to ensure staff complete the two day ACPO DASH Awareness/Risk Assessment training, as commissioned by Safer Cornwall Partnership between 2014 and 2016, followed by a structured roll out of ‘Routine Enquiry into Domestic Violence and Abuse’ in appropriate Mental Health Services, to ensure staff are able to identify, risk assess and refer where appropriate high risk cases of domestic violence and abuse.