Report Summary
This report provides members of the Policing Performance Committee with an overview of Mental Health Governance & Demand.
The purpose of this briefing paper is to provide a progress update in respect of the work PPCW Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Department in conjunction with Demand and Productivity Unit have carried out to create a Mental Health Dashboard.
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Meeting
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Policing Performance Committee - 11 October 2022
Date : 11 October 2022
Location : online
Further Detail
The Distress Brief Intervention (DBI) roll out continues with C3 control rooms being the current focus for activity. The DBI programme provides a framework for inter-agency working, collaboration and co-operation across a wide range of care settings, interventions and community support mechanisms working towards the shared goal of providing a compassionate and effective response to people in distress. This makes it more likely that the individuals in distress will engage and stay connected to services or support that may benefit them over time. Incremental training plans are in place within C3 Division presently to ensure officers can offer DBI over the telephone to persons calling Police in times of high-stress or crisis.
Work continues to support the Families Bereaved by Suicide Pilot which is currently taking place in NHS Highland and NHS Ayrshire and Arran Health Board Areas in conjunction with Highland and Islands Division, Argyll and West Dunbartonshire Division and in Ayrshire Division, this work is undertaken by the National Suicide Prevention Leadership Group. To date there have been 66 referrals in the first 13 months of the pilot which will last two years and is due to conclude in August 2023. Officers from the pilot areas who have referred families to suicide bereavement support services have been interviewed by an external academic research team to assist in the programme evaluation.
The National Suspected Suicide Data work is ongoing with Police Scotland sharing monthly data with PHS relative to suspected suicide numbers. PHS then share this early indication data with each of their local Suicide Prevention Leads, which is used to identify suicide trends and clusters, as well as allowing year on year comparisons to inform future actions.
Following an extensive preparatory period, Police Scotland’s draft Mental Health Strategy has now been reviewed and approved by members of the Mental Health Governance Group. The draft Strategy has been circulated to the consultation for the Mental Health Strategy and was sent to External leads within PHS, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, Scottish Ambulance Service, Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, Scottish Government, SAMH, Samaritans, Penumbra, Support in minds and internal PPCW and LPP partners for comment and is now under amendment prior to presentation at the Mental Health Governance Group.
