| Date | Category | Guidance | Changes |
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| Mental health | Suicide and bereavement response | Replaced reference to 'management of police information code of practice' with 'Police information and records management Code of Practice' and added link. |
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| Mental health | Suicide and bereavement response | Added links to guidance on planned assisted suicide and completed assisted suicide, under Suicide pacts or assisted suicide. |
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| Mental health | Suicide and bereavement response | Changes made to section Suicide and bereavement response. An additional bullet was added – 'consider whether domestic abuse or coercive and controlling behaviour may have contributed to or caused the death' |
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| Mental health | Suicide and bereavement response | Added new reference document (College of Policing (2022) Delivering a death message) to the section on Conveying the message. |
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| Mental health | Sources of help for those in need of mental and emotional support | Email changed from [email protected] to [email protected] - in the section ‘Bereavement support after a death by suicide for adults’ |
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| Mental health | Mental vulnerability and illness | Review of all existing links to the 2011 ABE guidance and update the reference to the new 2022 guidance. |
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| Mental health | Mental vulnerability and illness | New paragraph added to the end of the autism section (section 2.1.4). |
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| Mental health | Suicide and bereavement response | Reference to POLKA link removed. |
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| Mental health | Mental health – detention | Change to wording in relation to Section 136 of the Mental Health Act and hotel rooms. |
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| Mental health | Sources of help for those in need of mental and emotional support | Broken links removed from the bottom of Mental health>sources of support. |
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| Mental health | Mental health – detention | New paragraph added regarding temporary accommodation. |
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| Mental health | Suicide and bereavement response | Amended content under After a suicide attempt in line with Coroner rulings. |
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| Mental health | Introduction and strategic considerations | Update in relation to Police Mental Health Related Incident, plus new bullet under Key National Reports - HMICFRS Policing and Mental Health – Picking up the Pieces (2018). |
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| Mental health | Mental vulnerability and illness | Links to autism resources added. |
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| Mental health | Introduction and strategic considerations | Updated link to Autism guidance document. |
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| Mental health | AWOL patients | Replaced link to National Ambulance section 136 Protocol 2014. |
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| Mental health | Mental health – detention | Replaced link to National Ambulance section 136 Protocol 2014. |
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| Mental health | Mental health – detention | Updated links to PACE Codes. |
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| Mental health | Sources of help for those in need of mental and emotional support | Removed link to Console. |
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| Mental health | Mental health – detention | Detention module - change around safe place timescales. |
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| Mental health | Suicide and bereavement response | New addition to Mental Health APP. |
