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Merseyside Police, together with partner agencies, will deal professionally with all incidents involving planned or completed incidents of assisted suicide. All members of the Force, whilst investigating the possible commission of the offence of aiding and abetting the suicide or attempted suicide of another, will act in a compassionate and supportive manner, being non-judgemental as to the wishes of those involved. At all times during an investigation, consideration will be given to the potential impact on any cultural or religious issues.

This policy is required to provide the relevant information to govern the, issuing, use, retention, and actions on the loss of, Police Officer warrant cards, staff members ID cards and ID cards issued by Merseyside Police to volunteers, contractors, secondments and attachments.

Merseyside Police is firmly committed to the effective, safe, and dignified management of detainees who are suspected to be concealing drugs or other contraband inside their body. Application of this policy will be conducted in line with Authorised Professional Practice: Detention and Custody and Merseyside Police will work alongside its partner agencies to identify and support vulnerable people through prevention pathways balancing this need in line with the need to maintain public confidence in the criminal justice system when the requirement remains to bring offenders to justice.

The main aim of this policy is to ensure that all our responses to dog-related incidents are proportionate, lawful, accountable, necessary and consistent, with every case being resolved at the earliest point and the safety of the public and our employees being the primary objective. This approach is designed to provide the highest protection to the communities of Merseyside.

This policy aims to support a common framework that helps all responsible partner agencies to work together for the protection of children and young people. The main aim of the policy is to safeguard and protect the lives of children and young people by reducing the risk of exploitation, identifying risk at the earliest opportunity and by disrupting offender activity.

Through consistent application, the aim of the policy is to ensure staff who are employed on flexi time, and managers who are responsible for its implementation, work together to ensure the needs of the business are met, with due regard given to the needs of individual staff.

The objective of this policy is to ensure all police officers, police staff, volunteers and cadets are supported upon the report of them being a victim/survivor of domestic abuse. This policy affords staff the opportunity to understand what will happen if they report domestic abuse and what support they can expect from Merseyside Police.

The policy’s main aim is to provide a framework for managing overtime effectively. It is designed to help ensure a consistent systematic approach to authorising, claiming and processing overtime.

This policy seeks to reinforce the general principles covering the use of pocket notebooks and day books by staff during the course of their duty. This will include issuing of notebooks, security, retention and supervision of their use by line managers and loss reporting procedure.

This policy aims to provide a comprehensive approach to the creation, management, storage and disposal of documents, records and information in all formats across all business areas and functions.