Mental Illness: Police Custody
(asked on 18th December 2014) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the police on holding children with mental health problems in police cells.
This question was answered on 5th January 2015
It is not generally acceptable that anyone with mental health problems, and especially children, are held in police cells. We are clear that those who have committed no offence, and again especially children, should be taken to health based places of safety. Our recent review of the relevant powers recommends making it illegal to take under 18 year olds to police cells as a place of safety.