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Recommendation - Avon and Somerset Constabulary, February 2025

Avon and Somerset Constabulary Ref: 2023/199034 Recommended 18 Feb 2025 Response due 15 Apr 2025
Child sexual abuse

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Recommendations and responses

1 indexed

Recommendation 1

Link to recommendation · Accepted

Addressed to: Avon and Somerset Constabulary

Linked bodies: Avon and Somerset Police

IOPC recommendation

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.

Response published by the IOPC

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.

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