
By the end of 2019, the position was already clear. The NPCC (@policechiefs) agreed, in formal terms with the Care Quality Commission (@CareQualityComm), how suspected criminality in healthcare must be handled: • early police engagement • recognition of criminal thresholds • preservation of evidence • coordinated investigation That was the baseline. Not emergency guidance. Not pandemic improvisation. But established practice. Now place that alongside Operation Talla: • requests for assistance rejected • allegations not recorded • investigative pathways not engaged The system did not lack a framework. It already had one. The question is not what the rules were. The question is why, when it mattered most, the doorway to those rules appears not to have been opened. Here it is, in black and white: cqc.org.uk/sites/default/…









