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Was this the officer in charge of your son's case or other officers he didn't know? The OIC is supposed to keep an eye on his mental health so that could be it although our son's experience is that his OIC only asks a quick 'how are you' when she wants something else from him, although to be fair she rang once a few days after his arrest specifically to see how he was but we assume that was protocol and she had to do it. Is it early days for your son as it could have been a one-off mental health check by the OIC. I'm sure there are a few caring ones around!
Before our son appointed a solicitor he asked the OIC a lot of questions about his bail as he was terrified he might accidentally break the conditions. He rarely got a reply back until she messaged to say that because of all the questioning she felt he was likely to break his conditions and she had instructed our local police to do random bail checks on our house as that's his address now. Little surprise that has never happened so it was an idle threat and ridiculous anyway unless they came late at night when his children were staying with us to make sure he wasn't there as no overnight stays is part of his bail. If your son has a curfew in his bail conditions then it could possibly be to check he was complying (my husband was a police officer and if they had nothing else to do on a night shift it was customary to look in the 'bail book' and pop round to a few addresses to check the person was home but this was always because of a curfew.)
I'd say in your son's case this was a first one-off check as that is what has to be done, or because there was a concern that he wasn't keeping to the conditions and it was to check up on that under the pretence of being nice and caring. Or of course because the OIC really wanted to make sure your son was OK. This could be true if he's given any cause for concern to other authority figures eg social services, as I think that would raise a red flag to be raised and could trigger a visit from the police as the last thing they'd want is someone harming themselves whilst under their watch.
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Editing this as I see you've been a member on here since Jan so a first check-up is hardly likely (our nightmare journey began in Jan too so empathy to you as a fellow parent!)
Before our son appointed a solicitor he asked the OIC a lot of questions about his bail as he was terrified he might accidentally break the conditions. He rarely got a reply back until she messaged to say that because of all the questioning she felt he was likely to break his conditions and she had instructed our local police to do random bail checks on our house as that's his address now. Little surprise that has never happened so it was an idle threat and ridiculous anyway unless they came late at night when his children were staying with us to make sure he wasn't there as no overnight stays is part of his bail. If your son has a curfew in his bail conditions then it could possibly be to check he was complying (my husband was a police officer and if they had nothing else to do on a night shift it was customary to look in the 'bail book' and pop round to a few addresses to check the person was home but this was always because of a curfew.)
I'd say in your son's case this was a first one-off check as that is what has to be done, or because there was a concern that he wasn't keeping to the conditions and it was to check up on that under the pretence of being nice and caring. Or of course because the OIC really wanted to make sure your son was OK. This could be true if he's given any cause for concern to other authority figures eg social services, as I think that would raise a red flag to be raised and could trigger a visit from the police as the last thing they'd want is someone harming themselves whilst under their watch.
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Editing this as I see you've been a member on here since Jan so a first check-up is hardly likely (our nightmare journey began in Jan too so empathy to you as a fellow parent!)
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