Drugs for Diabetes, cancer, epilepsy and mental illness are denied with people holding on in police Cells after they were arrested, according to the shocking new report.
Suspected detained in custody The apartments are Even maintain urgent protection as a “form of punishment”, according to a study that is shared exclusively with Independent.
Report initiated calls for health for those in custody to be brought under troubleshooting NHS, In the middle of claim that private companies do not meet the basic standards they currently provide.
Deborah Coles, Executive Director of a Charity Investigation, which represents families whose loved ones have died custodyHe said that the report was “deeply in a relationship” and invited ministers to respond to the situation in the situation, “disasters”.
“It’s about denying the remedies for the protection of life,” she said. “There is still a risk of death and harm. It shines light on health care standards in police Tank apartments.
“This report sets naked many concerns concerned with decades over the standards of worry who afford detainees in police Custody. The reality of it, denying people who make people make life, makes the risk of death and serious harm. ”
News come only a week after the government has launched “operating protection”, the measure that allows prison Holding service people Overnight in police cells when they close close to capacity.
Researchers from Newcastle, Northermia and Durham passed hundreds of hours of police logs and spent long periods in custody interviewing staff and detainees during 2022. and 2023. years. They found numerous examples of patients who were rejected prescription drugs, arthritis, cancer, epilepsy and ptsp.
Researchers argue that there is “skepticism and mistrust for medical histories of detainees” among the guardianship staff.
Gethin rees, the main author of the study, said, “What hit me is … It is a really important part of the criminal justice, but it is largely neglected.
“We are talking about the most endangered people in our society. The way it needs to measure society is the way we treat our most vulnerable, so vital research [this] … we found people to want to come prison because police custody was sent as worse than prison. ”
Differences in health care providers covering custody designed that there is “postal cell lottery” in relation to health care and which medications were allowed, research has shown.
In some apartments, people were not allowed prescribed drugs that were not in their original marked frame, while in others, the staff did not allow any medicine for the first six hours – the rule that violates current guidelines.
Dr. Mwenza Blell, one of the researchers who spent within custody, seems to be the option to trust people real for health workers in custody. They are increased in an aversion culture, driven by fears that detained persons “and watch the” surcharge “for free.”
Stephanie Mulrine, who talked to people with the experience of detention, Independent That one patient met who was rejected on the prescription Methadone experienced such bad symptoms of the withdrawal that admitted to the crimes that they could not be held in prison, where they could adhere to them.
“People were so desperate to facilitate their suffering that then completed relapping and scoring drugand [were] Forced into the cycle of committing further crime, “she added.
The basic issue that has been reported to the report was the lack of access to health workers in police stations, which means that detainees are less able to get health care and medications when they need.
Custod Healthcare order police forces and extend private companies to a large extent, which the report suggests leads to a “strategic” cost reduction.
Dr. Blell said giving the provision of health care to custody under bidding Nhs “It would be useful”, adding, “I began to wonder how they know what standards should be.”
The home office has been contacted on comment. The source of the Department stated that the report is reviewed with the National Council of Police Police to see if some questions require a national.