Steps taken to tackle "significant safety risk" at Dumfries and Galloway police custody centre
dailyrecord.co.ukSteps have been taken to tackle a “significant safety risk” at one of the region’s police custody centres. But inspectors have now called for more improvements in how medicine is stored following a follow up visit to the suites in Dumfries and Stranraer.
Dumfries and Galloway Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) had to draw up an action plan after the team from HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland raised a string of concerns about how medicine is stored, supplied and administered when they visited the centres last year.
Among their worries was how equipment for monitoring blood pressure and blood sugar levels was maintained in Stranraer as well as untrained staff calling the forensic physician by phone with blood pressure readings – a practice described as a “significant safety risk”.
They were also concerned with how medicine was stored, dispensed and administered and the processes in place for managing medicine.
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