Forensic examiner services for police forces

Many police forces have seen the costs of providing medical assessments and treatment to detainees escalate in recent years, yet it has also been increasingly difficult to secure a timely response from busy doctors.

Reliance Medical Services works with individual police forces to provide a timely, comprehensive, safe, and cost-effective solution based on trained teams of healthcare professionals working to agreed protocols.

Reliance has many years experience of working with police forces around the country to deliver a wide range of custody and transport services, freeing up police time and resources.  Through the Sussex Police PFI contract which started in 2002, Reliance was the first private company to demonstrate that trained and experienced nurses could make a huge difference to the efficiency of the custody process, to the care and safety of detainees and staff in the custody setting.

We can provide:

• Teams of trained, UK based, forensic health practitioners who can deal with all the health requirements of Codes C and H of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act, plus staff, victim and detainee minor injuries.
• Forensic examiners who are leaders in their field specialising in mental health, drugs, and sexual assault cases.
• Integrated clinical teams which allow trained forensic nurses to fully develop and utilise their skills, leading to safe detainee care and good value for money services.
• The highest standards of clinical governance led by our Board level Medical Director.
• Forensic service modelling which provides individual police forces with a best value option, taking into account the geography of their custody centres.
• A range of additional services including training of police custody staff, drug testing, and managing the relationship with the local health services.
• The 'Reliance Difference’ – a commitment to working with each police force to achieve added value, joined-up working, and continuous service improvement.