London’s Cops To Stop Attending Mental Illness Emergency Calls

Police officers in London will soon stop responding to mental health incidents unless they believe there’s an “immediate threat to life”.

Chiefs say healthcare professionals should be attending many of these cases, leaving officers more time to solve and prevent crime.

Metropolitan Police chief Sir Mark Rowley wrote to health and social care partners last week to say he would stop officers responding to emergency calls about mental illness from the end of August.

But charities have questioned the speed of the move, which gives…