@smarteruk: Who should turn up when someone is in a mental health crisis? At the Home Affairs Committee, the former chief inspector of police, Sir Andy Cooke, said policing is far better at it than it used to be, but it still takes an awful lot of police time. "If my daughter had a mental health episode, I don't want a police officer dealing with it. It's not a policing job." The committee's chair, Dame Karen Bradley, a Home Office minister ten years ago, said policing became "the agency of last resort" and called it a frustration that it is still the issue. The people who make those calls, and the officers and nurses who answer them, know best what works. Ask them, then test it. Who should answer a mental health crisis call? 👇 Source: Sir Andy Cooke and Dame Karen Bradley MP, House of Commons Home Affairs Committee, oral evidence, 3 November 2026 (parliamentlive.tv). #SmarterUK #UKPolitics #Policing #MentalHealth #Police

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