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<p>The Home Office has not made any assessment on the impact of the Right Care, Right
Person Model operational approach on service users or engagement with mental health
services. The NPCC, CoP and NHSE are working to provide guidance to assist police
forces that chose to adopt RCRP principles do so in partnership with local agencies.
HMICFRS’s 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. The Policing Productivity
Review carried out last year also recommended the adoption of this approach to Chief
Constables.</p><p>The Right Care Right Person (RCRP) approach sets out a threshold
to assist police decision making on responding to incidents. 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>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>Under
RCRP approach the police should work with partners to put in place local plans before
withdrawing from attending mental health incidents. People in crisis need to have
an appropriate response – normally a health focused one, and where there is no imminent
risk to someone’s safety, people in mental health crisis need to be seen by healthcare
professionals at the earliest opportunity.</p>
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