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Talking to the Police
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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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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