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Talking to the Police

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Linda Hardwick
Linda Hardwick*
Affiliation:
Knowle Hospital, Fareham, Hants
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The police are now the only laymen in Britain who can pass judgement on a person's mental state and compulsorily admit them to places of safety.1 Various papers have looked at how the police use this power, and one paper in particular2 has shown that police are as efficient at recognizing persons in need of psychiatric care among those called to their attention as are medical practitioners who are not approved psychiatrists.

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Research Article
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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 8 , Issue 6 , June 1984 , pp. 110 - 112
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1984

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