HOLMES, from my understanding is only for murders. For example, it wasn’t used by myself when I investigated domestic incidents in my old role. The only team I knew to use this system was HMET who dealt with homicides. So therefore, I’m not entirely sure if every single part of this investigation would need to be logged on there anyway. Obviously the charges here would be yes, but let’s say the other 250 handover notes were 250 separate babies…some of the investigation into them may lead nowhere, this would still be noted on the system but not sure it would be on HOLMES. It could well be though with it all being under the same operation name. There may be parents that Dont want to have their babies dearths/injuries investigated so won’t give consent for medical notes, there may be babies who sadly passed away from medical explained things. All of this would need noting yes but not sure if it would just be those murder/attempt murders that would be put on that system. I hope that makes sense.
There’s more that goes into an investigation than people think about as I’ve said. For the standard domestics I used to investigate you could have victim statement, witness statement, officer statements, cctv, medical professional statement, medical photos, crime scene photos, crime scene examiner statement, mobile phone download, mobile phone expert statement, suspect interview, interviewers statements, 999 calls, body worn footage, previous domestic history, previous criminal history & then if the suspect throws up further lines of enquiry during their interview, you’d have those to follow up with. Then if you took it to CPS, they might come back with further actions before they’d consider a charge. I can’t imagine the magnitude of information they’d need for an investigation of this scale and yes, someone (most of those involved) will also need to input all the information into the systems too. It’s massive.
