Mentally Disordered Offenders: Police Custody

(asked on 9th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an estimate of the amount of police time that is spent dealing with cases involving someone with a mental health condition where other agencies may be better placed to assist that person.


Answered by
Kit Malthouse Portrait
Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 24th February 2022

Information on the average amount of police time spent dealing with cases involving mental health conditions is an operational matter for individual police forces and is not held centrally by the Home Office.

The best place for people suffering a mental health crisis is a healthcare setting, because the police cannot provide the specialist care they need. The Home Office continues to work closely with the National Police Chiefs’ Council, the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners and healthcare partners to address particular pressure points in demand on police relating to non-crime mental health related incidents.

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