Mental Health Campaign: 'Police should not have care of mentally ill' - The Independent on Sunday 4th November 2007

Senior officer calls for health service staff to take more responsibility The police should no longer be forced to care for the mentally ill, one of Britain's leading officers said yesterday. Commander Rod Jarman, who chairs the Association of Chief Police Officers' mental health group, told The Independent on Sunday that the police were increasingly being left "holding the baby" when it came to looking after mentally ill people – something they are not trained to do – because health and ambulance services treated the issue as low priority

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