For those that don't know a Form 1 is a form filled out by a doctor saying that a person is a danger to themselves or others and needs to be assessed at a psychiatric hospital. The form 1 means the person is going in for an automatic 72 hour assessment.
Now where I live at night there are three cars on the road, 2 with two officers and 1 single. Any time there is someone who doesn't want to go to the hospital and the paramedics deem that they need to go they can be arrested under the mental health act (MHA) which usually means that they get a form 1. Also the officers pick people up and take them to the hospital (I'm not sure what events happen that gets the officers arresting these people under the MHA as I am not there.)
So one they arrest someone under the MHA they take them up to the hospital and then they have to sit there until the person is seen by a crisis worker and a doctor. This is usually in excess of 3-4 hours usually 5 or 6, enough time that they usually is a shift change between the officers. When this happens that means there is one less car on the road for all of the other stuff that they normal go to.
Now I can see this being ok if it wasn't common, but there are normally officers at the hospital at least three days out of five.
Does anyone else have this and what are your thoughts?
Now where I live at night there are three cars on the road, 2 with two officers and 1 single. Any time there is someone who doesn't want to go to the hospital and the paramedics deem that they need to go they can be arrested under the mental health act (MHA) which usually means that they get a form 1. Also the officers pick people up and take them to the hospital (I'm not sure what events happen that gets the officers arresting these people under the MHA as I am not there.)
So one they arrest someone under the MHA they take them up to the hospital and then they have to sit there until the person is seen by a crisis worker and a doctor. This is usually in excess of 3-4 hours usually 5 or 6, enough time that they usually is a shift change between the officers. When this happens that means there is one less car on the road for all of the other stuff that they normal go to.
Now I can see this being ok if it wasn't common, but there are normally officers at the hospital at least three days out of five.
Does anyone else have this and what are your thoughts?
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