Study Highlights Concerns on Police Involvement in Emergency Mental Health Transfers
The police don’t have a good reputation when it comes to dealing with individuals with mental health crises. Police encounters have repeatedly proven to be particularly dangerous for people with mental illness, with these encounters often ending in injury and failing to provide the involved individuals the mental help they need. Even so, a recent study has revealed that university health centers in the Ontario region still rely on law enforcement for emergency mental-health transfers. The study, whose findings were reported in the “Canadian Medical Association Journal,” shows that health practitioners often prefer to call the police, even though they…
