Police cop too many mental health calls
It’s far too hot to feel chilli Incidents up over 3 years
IF you’re tired of the cold winter weather, imagine doing this for a job – sorting chilli peppers as they dry out under the scorching sun.
The chillis are left to bake on the ground at this farm in Bogra, Bangladesh, before the very best
RISING numbers of mental health call-outs are piling pressure on police, a thinktank has warned.
Cops have dealt with more than 450,000 incidents in the past year – up 20 per cent on 2016.
And in Staffordshire, the number of call-outs has doubled in the last three years, Parliament Street found.
The think-tank’s campaign head Danny Bowman called the figures “unacceptable”. And Mark Collins, are chosen to be sold at market to spice firms making chilli powder.
Chillis have been sorted this way for centuries – and workers know from painful experience they must wash their hands BEFORE going to the loo... from the National Police Chiefs’ Council, said: “Too many people are being directed to police where they should be receiving expert support from healthcare professionals.
“People experiencing a mental health crisis are not criminals, they’re unwell and often frightened.”
Derrick Farrell, of Vita Health
Group, said: “Tackling this surge in incidents requires every officer to be properly trained and equipped.”
A Government spokesman it was “ploughing additional money into mental health services to relieve the pressure on police”.
He added: “While the police will always act where life is at risk or a threat to public safety, assessing an individual’s health is not their job.”
In 2018, HM Inspectorate of Constabulary claimed the police had been “left to pick up the pieces” of a “broken” mental health system.
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