On the road with police responding to rising mental health callouts – BBC Newsnight

On the road with police responding to rising mental health callouts – BBC Newsnight

When someone’s having a mental health crisis, what should they do? Who do they call? Increasingly it’s the police and a Newsnight investigation reveals there’s been a massive rise in mental health call-outs by people who’ve rung the police across the UK. In Merseyside, mental-health related incidents have gone up 313% in 5 years. Some …

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