Hospital deployments

Please could you release the number of times police were called to a hospital in each of the last four years.

For each incident, please release

• the hospital,
• the alleged crime,
• the date,
• whether an arrest was made,
• the age of the person arrested
• and any other details you can about what happened.

In accordance with section 1(1) (b) of the Act our response is provided below;

Please note the following: The number of times police were called to a Hospital: That information has been recovered from our Incident recording system and includes brief details of the nature of each reported 'incident' from 2005. Many of the incidents are 'routine', e.g concern for welfare, assistance to other agencies & sudden deaths.

Incidents Deployed to in Hospitals

Arrests: This data is taken from our custody system where the place of arrest is shown as a hospital. The reason for the arrests may, in the vast majority of records, have nothing to do with the hospital in question indeed some of the hospitals listed are not within Cheshire and its obvious that just happens to be where the person arrested was at that particular time. In addition for 2005 we are only able to provide data from April onwards. Prior to that date the custody records were paper based.

Arrests in Hospitals