File. Mental Health

Scope and Content

Includes correspondence with the National Society for Mentally Handicapped Children regarding police involvement in proposed seminars and Gateway Clubs, information on the Butler Committee on Mentally Abnormal Offenders, with copy of the report, information on enforcement of section 136(1) of The Mental Health Act 1959 regarding places of safety, extracts from a thesis on police admissions to psychiatric hospitals by Dr. H R George, summary of responses of forces procedures when encountering mentally ill or disturbed individuals 'in the streets', legal rights for the learning disabled and information on interrogation procedures

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