Plod in London

[transam]

Are to stop responding to mental
Health call outs from September unless it’s a threat to life ???

Some other police region did the same a good while back and apparently they have saved a 1000 police hours a week ?? Which can now be dedicated to actual crime

 

[nwgs]

Which can now be dedicated to actual crime

More speed cameras.

 

[motorbiking]

Ultimately one of two things tends to happen with people who are mentally ill to the point of needing the police :

1 they harm themselves, sometimes fatally.
2 they harm others, sometimes fatally.

The bigger issue is that drugs, alcohol, bad living are so prolific that mental illness is far bigger than it should be.

If you sit at home drinking beer, smoking weed and eating crap having nothing to drive you other than your habit - you will have a high risk of developing mental illness

 

[Justin Passing]

If you sit at home drinking beer, smoking weed and eating crap having nothing to drive you other than your habit - you will have a high risk of developing mental illness

So what did YOU do about it? Get Married?

 

[securespark]

The bigger issue is that drugs, alcohol, bad living are so prolific that mental illness is far bigger than it should be.

I think you're right.

But how do you tackle such a huge issue?

Some of it is down to upbringing, some to their socioeconomic status and many more factors besides.

 

[transam]

Depression ?? ( cause)

Fella working for us is on depression medication his missis has just had another baby there 4th

All girls

No wonder he is depressed having to live with 5 woman enough to tip any bloke over the edge

 

[Brigadier]

Some of it is down to upbringing, some to their socioeconomic status and many more factors besides

Like watching daytime TV (HUTH, for example)

 

[securespark]

I know, I'm past saving...

 

[Old Salt]

Police often refuse to attend mental health issues, even when the unfortunate individual is threatening ambulance crews with a knife. Been happening for years. Even the ambulance service mental health teams refuse to attend in case they are not available to attend a “serious incident”.

 

[Tigercubrider]

If a person needs sectioning, who exactly is responsible for safely securing a person so they can be transported to care?
My brother was a social worker who had to get the police on occasion when someone needed to be sectioned.

However don’t forget that the Met recently pointed tasers at a 91 year old woman. She had dementia and argued with her carer. They handcuffed her and applied a spit hood.
One is suspended, another five on restricted duties.

I guess the 91 year old could have been built like a gorilla, but it’s unlikely.
I also recognise that dementia sufferers can become aggressive.
My Mum had dementia and became violent but didn’t require 6 rozzers, handcuffs and a spit hood.

 

[Dork Lard]

I know a bloke in his 70's who could still drop 3 or 4 healthy young men in a brawl.

Stop thinking of her as a sweet frail 91yr old granny with dementia, she could have been just as unpredictable & uncontrollable as anyone.

 

[Vinty]

Depression ?? ( cause)

Fella working for us is on depression medication his missis has just had another baby there 4th

All girls

No wonder he is depressed having to live with 5 woman enough to tip any bloke over the edge

You left out the mother in law.

 

[Odds]

When a letter from the Metropolitan police commissioner was leaked to the Guardian this week warning that from September his officers would no longer attend unnecessary mental health calls, Lee Freeman had a jolt of recognition. [He] had issued a similarly blunt deadline to health partners back in 2019 when he decided far too much police time was being spent attending calls over concerns for welfare, mental health incidents or missing people.

Then, Freeman’s force was receiving 25,000 such calls a year – 11% of total demand. His officers were deployed to 78% of these. Most were unnecessary and 75% came from other agencies, Freeman recalled.

He came up with what became Right Care, Right Person (RCRP), a strategy of deploying officers to only the most essential mental health-related calls and diverting the rest of the cases to dedicated health professionals. It is so successful that it is now being not just copied by the Met but turned into a “national partnership agreement” to be adopted across England and Wales.

Three years on from implementing RCRP, Humberside police attend an average of 508 fewer incidents a month, saving 1,440 officer hours each month, according to Freeman.

full fats @ the GRuntiaid

 

[Mottie]

I know a bloke in his 70's who could still drop 3 or 4 healthy young men in a brawl.

Don’t. Be. Daft. And stop watching Tulsa King.

 

[motorbiking]

I wondered if it was a euphemism?

But anyone with boxing / martial arts training should be able to drop the avg. metrosexual/snowflake/non-identifying flower who’s never seen the inside of a gym let alone used a punch bag.

Doesn’t stop him ending up in prison though.