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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on December 12, 2023, 11:01:49 AM

Title: The police officers dealing with a surge in mental health call-outs
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 12, 2023, 11:01:49 AM

This is the sort of issue that needs to be dealt with in a non partisan basis. It needs proper cross agency communication. I hope that politicians from all parties can see that. Mental health still seems to often to be only get lip service.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67681738

Title: Re: The police officers dealing with a surge in mental health call-outs
Post by: Gordon on December 12, 2023, 12:08:46 PM

The police aren't mental health professionals but find themselves dealing with mental health crises. I recall, from my own NHS background, the issue of having on-call emergency mental health teams on a 24/7 basis being discussed several times around 25/30 years ago now, but it never got off the ground - they were too busy closing hospitals and calling it 'care in the community'.