Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people spent time in a police station as a place of safety due to a mental health condition in each of the past five years.
The Home Office collects and publishes information on the number of persons detained under section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983, broken down by place of safety taken to.
These data were collected by the Home Office on a mandatory basis for the first time in 2016/17, and were published as part of the ‘Police powers and procedures, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, which can be accessed here:
Figures for 2015/16 were collected and published by the National Police Chiefs’ Council and can be accessed using the following links:
http://www.npcc.police.uk/documents/S136%20Data%202015%2016.pdf.