Home Affairs - Eleventh Report
Policing and mental health

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Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 3 February 2015.

Contents

Terms of Reference

1 Introduction

Contact with the police

2 Detention under the Mental Health Act

The use of section 136

Removing police cells as a place of safety

Provision of health-based places of safety

Exclusion from health-based places of safety

Exclusion due to intoxication

Alternative Places of Safety

Public and private places

3 Detention of children under s. 136

Exclusion due to age

4 Police and health service collaboration

Street triage

Liaison and diversion

Ambulances

Delays waiting for a mental health assessment

In a hospital

In police custody

What happens after custody

Joint working and the Concordat

Data problems

5 Training

Mental health awareness and identifying vulnerabilities

De-escalation and restraint

Deaths in police custody

Suicide following custody

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

List of printed written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

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Prepared 6 February 2015