Me and Theresa May

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15 May

Here is a response to part of what Theresa May is reported as having said (in @guardian) :


THEAGENTAPSLEY

15 May 2013 3:51pm

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I believe all these proposals will make a real difference to police officers on the ground. But ultimately police officers need the assurance that vulnerable people with mental health problems will be dealt with by health and social care services, not the police.

Not for the first time, a Secretary of State not knowing what he or she is talking about :

If a person is 'liable to be detained' (i.e. before formally taken to a psychiatric unit, or having 'absconded'), or someone enters premises under s. 135 Mental Health Act 1983, the police have the specific job of, in some cases, of 'conveying' the person liable to be detained to the unit, but anyway of bringing back absconders and breaking into premises.

In fact, the police are all over the 1983 Act - talking about s. 136 is just the usual knee-jerk, ill-thought-out rash promise of change in the hope of not doing anything (much) before the General Election, and just because of having to in the light of the Adebowale report.


An average of 11 deaths per year just for The Met is shocking. However, does anyone care about the routine level of deaths on in-patient units ? :

It would be helpful to have some figures cited for this rate of mortality, if collated figures exist (Care Quality Commission ?), before assuming that (a) this is simply a problem of the police (with s. 136) having to do what they shouldn't do, or (b) is less mismanaged by 'health and social services', or that those services' practices are any better than those of The Met...


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Mind what's going on ?

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10 May

And where is this media launch, @paulfarmermind, and of exactly what... ?
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 10, 2013

Oh, I see... I was misled by the word 'policing' in that Tweet, @paulfarmermind, which gave me hope that their role was being examined.
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 10, 2013

Not sure what was going on there, as it was the Adebowale report on the Met and mental-health patients...


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