This is obviously right but the Met has just cut (what it says is) 7% of its workload and handed it to a dangerously underfunded NHS without any funding attached.
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2023
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Well, Met is dangerously underfunded itself.
meanwhile in 'Murica
This is the best summary I could come up with:
From 31 October the Met will start implementing a scheme that aims to stop officers being diverted from crime fighting to do work health staff are better trained for.
One health source with knowledge of the discussions told the Guardian the commissioner’s hard line was disliked, but had worked: “He got us round the table, got our attention and got us talking.
The letter sent on Thursday says: “In practice, this means that police call handlers will receive a new prompt relating to welfare checks or when a patient goes absent from health partner inpatient care.
The prompt will ask call handlers to check that a police response is required or whether the person’s needs may be better met by a health or care professional.”
Rowley’s letter in May summoned health and social care chiefs to meetings, which were held at the Met’s Scotland Yard central London headquarters and NHS offices in Waterloo.
The first the Met is expected to implement arecalls to check on welfare, for instance where a mental health patient has missed an appointment and where there is no intelligence of harm.
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