Missing Persons Found - Continued

[wolf63]

This is a small update from Police Scotland, will see if I can find a link to a news story once I have drugged and fed my employer.

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1431314.html

Police Scotland
36 mins ·

DEATH OF JOHN YUILL AND SERIOUS INJURY TO LAMARA BELL

Statement from the Chief Constable, Sir Stephen House:

Firstly I want to apologise to the families of John Yuill and Lamara Bell and to the people of Scotland for this individual failure in our service. Everyone in Police Scotland feels this most profoundly. The details given below have been shared with both families but I feel it is right that we also make them public.

I completely understand the level of concern being raised about the circumstances surrounding the handling of the incident of the crash near the M9 slip road at Bannockburn, and in particular, Police Scotland’s response to information received. That we failed both families involved is without doubt.

However, I want to make clear to members of the public, and all those who have rightly expressed concern, that the mistakes made in not responding to the call from a member of the public on Sunday 5th July arose because the information received was not entered onto our systems.

We know that just prior to 11.30am on Sunday 5th July 2015 a member of the public contacted Police Scotland via the 101 system to report that they could see a vehicle down an embankment near the M9 slip road at Bannockburn.

All callers to 101 receive an electronic options menu. This call was answered within 6 seconds following that message by an experienced officer and the relevant details were given by the caller.

For reasons yet to be established this call was not entered onto our police systems and not actioned out to operational teams in the Stirling area to respond and trace the vehicle.

Shortly before 10am on 8 July, 2015 a second call was made to Police Scotland via the 101 system. This call was answered, recorded and allocated to operational teams who located Mr Yuill and Ms Bell within their car.

Police Scotland are legally constrained from giving any detail into an incident if it is referred to the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (PIRC), as this incident rightly was.

As the public would expect the police must remain independent of this investigation which will be carried out by the PIRC under the direction of the Crown.

All further detail going forward will therefore be a matter for the Crown Office and the PIRC.

[Peter Pedant]

// and what do our learned senior police officers and affiliates have to opine on this?//

in the absence of comment: what about

" The police work their socks off protecting the public usually from themselves. Every now and then - rarely I mean - they make a weeny mistake and all the pinko wet bleeding heart liberals on this thread take up their usual positions and start trying to make capital out of it. "

[Gromit]

// a weeny mistake //

A man is dead, another lay injured for 3 days. It may not be the police's fault, but it is not a trivial incident.

[DTCwordfan]

It certainly is not trivial.....there's been a lot of issues over these secondary numbers both for the police and the NHS...obviously a 999 overrides them but they really need to look at proper 'booking' if this system is going to survive....

[wolf63]

I just found this update of sorts on Lamara's condition. It all goes to show that in one second our lives can change.

http://news.stv.tv/stirling-central/1324507-lamara-bell-reassure-friends-facebook-hanging-in-there-crash-falkirk/