<p>The Home Office has not made any assessment on the impact of the Right Care, Right Person Model operational approach on service users or engagement with mental health services. The NPCC, CoP and NHSE are working to provide guidance to assist police forces that chose to adopt RCRP principles do so in partnership with local agencies. HMICFRS’s State of Policing Report viewed the implementation of RCRP as a positive step in the report and strongly supported this approach which further builds on the findings made in Humberside’s PEEL inspection report last year. The Policing Productivity Review carried out last year also recommended the adoption of this approach to Chief Constables.</p><p>The Right Care Right Person (RCRP) approach sets out a threshold to assist police decision making on responding to incidents. The benefits of this are that the police should only be responding to health & social care incidents where there is a clear and immediate risk of serious harm or criminality or where they are needed to exercise their powers under the Mental Health Act. This ensures the public receive the right care from the right person and reduces unnecessary police involvement.</p><p>This is a model that is based on partnership working, with local police chiefs and health and social care partners working together to understand where the police are filling gaps for other agencies and the route to address this. It will be important for partners to continue to work together, to safely implement the approach.</p><p>Under RCRP approach the police should work with partners to put in place local plans before withdrawing from attending mental health incidents. People in crisis need to have an appropriate response – normally a health focused one, and where there is no imminent risk to someone’s safety, people in mental health crisis need to be seen by healthcare professionals at the earliest opportunity.</p>