Giles Fraser’s article about how the police have become the social service of last resort – and in particular a substitute mental healthcare service – would be laughable if it wasn’t true (Loose canon, 25 July).
Reductions in the provision of care for vulnerable people with mental health problems means that police are now called on to deal with incidents involving people having mental health problems that are only peripheral to crime and have no connections with organised crime or terrorism, but are usually public order or personal behavioural problems.
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