Inappropriate treatment of detainee

Watling v Chief Constable of Suffolk Constabulary [2019] EWHC 2342 (QB)

The High Court has found that the failure by police officers to recognise that a detainee who was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs had suffered a stroke and delay in the attendance of a forensic medical examiner did not constitute a violation of the detainee’s rights under ECHR art 3 and art 8. The evidence was that the officers had no actual or constructive knowledge that the detainee had suffered a stroke or was in need of immediate medical attention, and the system devised and implemented for an Forensic Medical Examiner (FME) to attend was adequate.