Read a text description of this video Police emergency 378. Do you have an emergency? Darna Savariu, Crisis Counselor, The Gerstein Crisis Centre The police is somebody with power, you know with the ability to apprehend somebody and take somebody to the hospital, even against their will. Elaine Amsterdam, Crisis Service Coordinator, The Gerstein Crisis Centre If you've had poor experience with the police, if you've been marginalized, if you come from racialized communities, chances are somebody else could better respond to that community member in need. Nicki Casseres, Coordinator of Training and Community Education, Gerstein Crisis Centre. And there's a lot of opportunity that we don't have to get to that end place where somebody is in such a desperate place that the only thing that they can do is call 911. Susan Davis, Executive Director, The Gerstein Crisis Centre Toronto police services respond to about 33,000 mental health crisis calls every year. We need to flip o
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Police presence in medical institutions creates a barrier to people seeking help and can lead to the criminalisation of mental illness, argues Mashal Iftikhar
In May 2023 the Metropolitan Police commissioner, Mark Rowley, wrote a letter to health and social care services announcing the Metropolitan Police’s withdrawal from 999 calls related to mental health incidents from 31 October this year. Rowley said that patients were being failed by the process of sending police officers instead of medical professionals to people in a mental health crisis1 and I couldn’t agree more.
At present, police officers possess unique legal powers under the Mental Health Act. These enable them to transport someone in a state of mental health crisis to a place of safety for assessment by a mental health professional. Although this represents only one facet of police involvement in mental health services, it’s by far the greatest form of police presence that our patients experience.
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