The move is designed to free up officers to spend more time on their core roles, rather than dealing with patients in need of medical help from experts.
Metropolitan Police officers will not attend emergency calls if they are linked to mental health incidents from September.
“In the interests of patients and the public, we urgently need to redress the imbalance of responsibility, where police officers are left delivering health responsibilities. They said: “In London alone, between 500-600 times a month, officers are waiting for this length of time to hand over to patients, and it cannot continue.“Police are compassionate and highly skilled but they are not trained to deliver mental health care.”
The Met spokesperson said the programme had been “hugely successful… reducing demands on all services and, most importantly, ensuring the right care is being delivered by the right person”. “It is important to stress the urgency of implementing RCRP in London. Every day that we permit the status quo to remain, we are collectively failing patients and are not setting up officers to succeed.”
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