[Kizzy]

There are policies and proceedures that have to be adhered to, when dealing with minors and an anyone with a mental or physical disability.
If these officers failed to follow the correct proceedure the family have the right to report it as negligence.
What is the point of having guidelines written to follow if you are not going to follow them? The officer in charge could have radioed the control room at any point to find out this information. The judge awarded compensation in this case, what other way could this have been resolved? Have the officers involved lose their job?
It is interesting that the Police have refused to apologise and instead are wasting taxpayers money further by appealing the judges decision.