Affiliation:
1. Lecturer, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF
Abstract
The expansion of community based psychiatric care and the discharge of long-stay psychiatric inpatients may lead to an increase in police contacts with the mentally ill. This paper describes the demographic and clinical profiles of these patients and reviews the problems which may be encountered by the police in the recognition, management and appropriate referral of the mentally ill.
Subject
Law,Health Policy,Issues, ethics and legal aspects
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