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Category: 23 Big Issues for users of Mental Health Services - Last Updated on Tuesday, 07 February 2012 02:54
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BACKGROUND
This practice has too many adverse affects on people with a mental illness, their family, friends and the community as a whole. Police officers (through no fault of their own) have extremely limited training in this area, and find themselves deficient in the necessary skills to adequately mange these delicate and difficult situations. This often results in total mismanagement, the worst results hitting our news headlines with sickening regularity. Currently in South Australia there is a case before the courts where a person with a mental illness was shot and killed in their own house by a police officer.
This practice criminalizes mental illness causing untold psychological stress and community stigmatization as neighbors see the person with a mental illness "dragged‟ from their homes by police.
It is also a shocking waste of police time as two police officers have to accompany the person with a mental illness to a psychiatric facility and wait until they have been seen by a doctor.
SOLUTIONS
· · Legislation needs to be changed to enable mental health service
providers to legally transport people with a mental illness to hospital
· · Use unmarked (non-police) vehicles when transporting all people to
hospital
·· Education for police facilitated by mental health consumers
·· Lobby politicians to stop the practice and change the policy
·· Use of trained consumers in crisis and intervention mental health teams
One of the '23 Big Issues'