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<p>The Right Care Right Person (RCRP) approach sets out a threshold to assist police
decision making on responding to incidents based on a duty of care. The benefits of
this are that the police should only be responding to health & social care incidents
where there is a clear and immediate risk of serious harm or criminality or where
they are needed to exercise their powers under the Mental Health Act. This ensures
the public receive the right care from the right person and reduces unnecessary police
involvement.</p><p>The Right Care Right Person operational model is a locally led
approach with decisions on how and when to implement it to be made at a local level,
between operationally independent police forces and health care partners. These will
be based on different local area needs and requirements. This approach does not change
the police response to situations where a crime has occurred or where there is a risk
of serious harm to the individual or the wider public.</p><p>This is a model that
is based on partnership working, with local police chiefs and health and social care
partners working together to understand where the police are filling gaps for other
agencies and the route to address this. It will be important for partners to continue
to work together, to safely implement the approach.</p><p>It will be for local chiefs
to decide which aspects of RCRP that their force will adopt, working with partners,
and they will need to ensure that they properly consider equality impacts and risks
as part of that process.</p><p>As required by the Equality Act 2010, the Home Office
is considering its Public Sector Equality Duties, as part of our work with health
and policing partners to create a new national partnership agreement, which will signal
national support for the RCRP principles.</p><p>The recent HMICFRS State of Policing
Report viewed the implementation of RCRP as a positive step in the report and strongly
supported this approach which further builds on the findings made in Humberside’s
PEEL inspection report last year.</p>
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