Oliver Colvile
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(9 years, 4 months ago)
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Mr David Jones (Clwyd West) (Con)
3. What steps she is taking to improve the approach of the police to working with people with mental health problems.
Oliver Colvile (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) (Con)
6. What steps she is taking to improve the approach of the police to working with people with mental health problems.
Bob Blackman (Harrow East) (Con)
13. What steps she is taking to improve the approach of the police to working with people with mental health problems.
Oliver Colvile
I wish you a happy new year, Mr Speaker.
Plymouth’s Charles Cross police station reputedly has England’s busiest custody suite. Does my right hon. Friend have any plans to locate a community mental health nurse at Charles Cross to help people with mental health and autistic challenges?
Mrs May
As my hon. Friend will know, the provision of mental health nurses in police custody suites is a local issue, but I am pleased to tell him that from April 2015 NHS England will commission liaison and diversion services across Devon and Cornwall, including in Charles Cross police station, and that will provide people in police custody who may have mental health issues and autistic challenges with access to mental health nursing.