Police Liaison & Triage

The Police Street Triage car provides a frontline police officer with a mental health professional. They work to ensure that all service users with mental health issues are supported during what is often a challenging crisis period. The specialist mental health skills provided by NHFT means that assessment, treatment, and pathway support can happen at the initial point of contact.

Mental health incidents are identified through proactive observation of police incidents as they occur. They can also be identified through requests for assistance from officers within the control room or at incidents where officers feel that mental health assessment and direction would be of benefit both to the police and the service user.

Our service:

• Provides specialist mental health assessment and risk management at the point of police-community contact.
• Supports the effective use of Section 136 of the Mental Health Act and reduce detentions under the act.
• Reduces police time and resources at incidents that may be related to mental health issues.
• Improves service user pathways into and through mental health services.
• Develops robust care plan and management strategies to support officers in their response to service users who have frequent contact at the point of crisis.
• Supports processes around the application of section 135 MHA.
• Provides training and development of officers and police staff in the management of mental illness and risk.

The Triage car is part of the Trust's wider Crisis Pathway which is to ensure that service users receive effective mental health assessment and treatment within their community at the point of crisis.  As such the triage car has full access to all of the existing NHFT pathways and treatment options allowing service users prompt access to effective treatment and pathway direction.

Address

Northamptonshire Police - Force HQ, Wootton Hall, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN4 0JQ

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