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October 2011 - December 2016
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Background
Scotland has one of the highest rates of drug-related deaths (DRDs) per capita in Europe, the majority of which involve opioids. Naloxone is a medication used to reverse opioid-related overdoses. In efforts to tackle escalating DRDs in many countries, naloxone is increasingly being provided to people who are likely first responders in ov...
A study led by the Scottish Centre for Policing & Public Health at Edinburgh Napier University has found a collaborative initiative between emergency services in a disadvantaged community had a potentially ‘ground-breaking’ impact.
Researchers conducted an exploratory evaluation of a Strategic Delivery Partnership ‘vanguard initiative’, which saw...
Abstract: Commonly, in the course of their duties, the police will come into contact with people who
have a lived experience of mental illness. It is acknowledged that these contacts can and do happen
for a wide variety of reasons and in a broad range of circumstances. Increasingly, police have found
that they are responding to call outs and situat...
This report describes the independent findings of an evaluation of a Police Scotland test of change (pilot) of the carriage and administration of naloxone as an emergency first aid measure to persons suspected of experiencing an opioid overdose. The pilot was conducted between March and October 2021 in three test areas in Scotland: Falkirk, Dundee...
Assessing vulnerability is an international priority area across law enforcement and public health (LEPH). Most contacts with frontline law enforcement professions now relate to ‘vulnerability’; frontline health responders are experiencing a similar increase in these calls. To the authors’ best knowledge there are no published, peer-reviewed tools...
Welcome to this special edition of the Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing that seeks to explore the intersect between law enforcement and mental health care. Policing has always played a role in responding to individuals experiencing mental health crisis and or living with mental illnesses in the community. In recent decades, the poli...
Care pathways for people in distress or with mental health problems who present to emergency departments or services are inadequate. This is a global issue, and one which profoundly affects Scotland.
A coherent multi-agency whole system national strategy is urgently needed in order to prevent potentially avoidable poor health and justice outcomes o...
Introduction
Law enforcement professions now assume more responsibility for tackling mental health issues alongside public health colleagues than ever before. The term ‘vulnerability’ is frequently used within Law Enforcement and Public Health (LEPH) to identify those requiring emergency mental health care. However, there are ongoing challenges wit...
Overview
This guideline aims to improve the outcomes of situations where police respond to
people who are experiencing mental health crises in the community. This guideline focuses on:
i) enhancing police responses to managing mental health crises, and ii) improving partnerships with people with lived and living experience of mental health issues a...
Background:
Historically, police departments focused solely on criminal justice issues. Recently, there has been a dynamic shift in focus, with Law Enforcement professional groups assuming more responsibility for tackling mental health and distress-related issues (that may arise because of mental health related problems and learning disabilities)...
Police officers have increasingly become involved in mental health care responses not traditionally acknowledged as a police function. This has been described as “Florence Nightingale in pursuit of Willie Sutton” (a notorious bank robber) by American sociologist Egon Bittner (1974). In this editorial we present emerging international approaches add...
Multi-agency public protection practice has received significant media and government scrutiny in recent years, in response to failings to protect those most vulnerable people in society. Despite an appreciation by agencies that there are resource and outcome benefits to collaborative practice, how safeguarding public protection policy may be integ...
Background & Context:
Protecting and supporting vulnerable members of society is a fundamental aspect of many different professionals including police, doctors, nurses & social workers. This necessitates working across organisational boundaries to develop collaborative styles of leadership & multi-agency working. It is a challenging undertaking for...
There is continuing stigma surrounding mental ill health and mental health nursing. This article examines perceptions of mental health nurses and outlines how one university is working to challenge stigma in the field.
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This was an evaluation of a Police Scotland test of change (pilot) of the carriage and administration of naloxone as an emergency first aid measure to persons suspected of experiencing an opioid overdose. The pilot was conducted between March and October 2021 in three test areas in Scotland: Falkirk, Dundee City and Glasgow East, and subsequently extended to include police officers in Caithness, custody officers in Falkirk and community officers in Stirling.
