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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Iain McKinnonORCiD, Dr Gethin Rees
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Worldwide, there are no clear standards governing healthcare provision for police custody detainees. Healthcare providers should work within their professional standards, but few standards exist for police officers. This is troubling due to the high rate of police custody detainees with mental health and substance misuse concerns. Contrastingly, there is the aspirational standard of “equivalence” in prisons where detainees should receive healthcare equivalent to those at liberty. Our ESRC funded research investigates police custody health pathways in England, UK. We present results from three work-packages: 1. Ethnography observing workday behaviour of healthcare practitioners and detention officers, and their interactions with detainees, adding essential context to understanding how provision of care, recording/accessing data, and risk assessment occur in practice; 2. Semi-structured interviews to ascertain the opinions, experiences, and justifications for practices of those responsible for healthcare in custody; 3. A sample of custody risk assessments to measure the scale of morbidity, and thematic analysis of risk assessment and custody log data to identify how the recording and communication of health and risk related information impacts on care. This session is intended to promote debate how standards for vulnerable people in police custody should be set in an ethical and legal framework.
Author(s): McKinnon I, Rees G
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: XXXVIIIth International Congress on Law and Mental Health
Year of Conference: 2024
Online publication date: 26/07/2024
Acceptance date: 23/10/2023
Publisher: International Academy of Law and Mental Health
URL: https://ialmh.org/
