of constabulary who now chairs a mental health trust. for the metropolitan police to potentially, as this story is being reported, to step away from those crisis calls well, there isn t another agency to step in and fill the vacuum, so, yes, i m alarmed. i want to see how this works through. the model for what scotland yard is proposing is the right care, right person scheme, adopted by police in humberside in 2020, in which officers do not attend a call if a mental health professional would be more appropriate. i am not persuaded that this is the entirely correct approach. i mean, what we know is that it is best for individuals and patients if the nhs and the police work hand in hand to resolve this problem. with continued focus on the performance and conduct of scotland yard officers, the commissioner wants to move the conversation on to what the priorities of the police should be. it s an argument that goes back to the birth of the metropolitan police itself,
where police officers are dealing with mental health is the equivalent capacity that could deal with 500,000 victims of domestic violence. the suggestion that officers will refuse to attend many calls relating to psychological crisis has alarmed a former inspector of constabulary, who now chairs a mental health trust. for the metropolitan police to potentially, as the story s been reported, to step away from those crisis calls, well, there isn t another agency to step in and fill the vacuum. so, yes, i m alarmed. i want to see how this works through. the model for what scotland yard is proposing is the right care, right person scheme adopted by police in humberside in 2020 in which officers do not attend a call if a mental health professional would be more appropriate. i am not persuaded that this is the entirely correct approach. i mean, what we know is that it is best for individuals and patients if the nhs and the police work hand in hand to resolve this problem.