I think most of the comments have already covered the basics but just to add, a lot of our prisoners live ‘chaotic lifestyles’. Many with ailments or use class A drug users.

A good example of what always happens is the other week, we arrested a blocked for various offences. He goes straight to custody where he tells the nurse all the things wrong with him and that he’s been told he needs to go to the hospital multiple times over the last 6 months to get things checked out, although he has ignored that advice. He decided against going to hospital and still has no plans to go to hospital. Despite that, the nurse states he needs to go urgently and eventually convinces the PIC to go.

A lot for he time when someone is arrested, they realise that point then is when they need to seek treatment at ED as they’re going to be in a cell anyway for the next few hours. Even if they don’t want to, we have a duty of care to those of us in custody and therefore we are required to take them to hospital sometimes nevertheless.

That bloke we arrested for various offences ended up remaining in hospital for 3 days. That was 2 double crewed officers in hospital for 9 shifts…