MEMORANDUM

TO	ACC Catherine Clarke
FROM	Superintendent Vicky Taylor
DATE	28/01/2025
SUBJECT	Right Care, Right Person Briefing for Councillor Lee

Right Care, Right Person.

RCRP ensures that people receive the right care from the right people. When someone is suffering with their mental health the police are not always the appropriate agency to attend. Having police attend can be stigmatising for the individual concerned. A more appropriate response involves mental health services or ambulance who can access the correct support and care.

North Yorkshire Police only apply RCRP to calls from our health care partners. We are only one of 5 forces across the country who do not apply RCRP to children and members of the public.

The police will always continue to attend incidents in which there is a risk or threat to life, or a crime has been committed.

NYP roll out

RCRP commenced in January 2023. An extensive consultation process was conducted including partners, other key organisations and individuals including partnership working groups. Numerous briefings took place including to the ICB, individual Mental Health agencies, Acute Hospitals, YAS, AMHP’s and others.

Peer Review

Obtaining an independent review to assist with the development of RCRP, NYP have previously commissioned the College of Policing to undertake two Peer Reviews. This led to a Strategic Governance Board being established.

Strategic Governance Board

Our Strategic Governance Board has met three times. It is jointly chaired by the Chief Executive of Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust - Brent Kilmurray and Assistant Chief Constable - Catherine Clarke.

The Board is moving towards the application of RCRP to Children and members of the public. NYP have met with neighbouring forces and partners to explore their processes and mitigate any risks.

NYP have a draft members of public policy written and ready for sign off at the next Strategic Governance Board meeting.

Regarding application to children, once this is in place, NYP will have a weekly operational meeting with partners to review and scrutinise incidents and feed these findings back to the Strategic Governance Board. This would mirror another monthly meeting NYP currently run where RCRP incidents are reviewed.