Police Responses to People with Mental Illnesses

Community police frequently encounter people with mental health, and these interactions  are often sensitive and demanding, yet despite this, surprisingly scant attention has been given to the development of empirically tested and established best practice approaches to managing this important aspect of police work. Police Responses to People with Mental Illnesses seeks to reduce this gap in knowledge by providing an international overview of some of the latest initiatives in the field, and the challenges still to be confronted in many places in overcoming cultural and associated barriers to protecting the rights of the mentally ill._x000D_ This book was originally published as a special issue of Police Practice and Research: An International Journal.