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Old 09-12-2016, 16:33
LakieLady
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You sound like you're looking for any excuse to bash them, but I bet you'd be complaining if they didn't rush to your house when you're being robbed, and I bet you'd expect them to come in and tackle a drugged up burglar with a knife if you needed help.
I recently received 2 threats from a client, and reported them both (2 separate reports, as they were several days apart). I was told the reports would just be logged and no action would be taken.

I then spoke to the client's mental health worker, in case this was indicative of the client's MH deteriorating. She told me that they had discharged the client, because of several threats to staff. There had also been an incident of criminal damage to the worker's car, followed by another message from the client saying she was responsible.

Each of these events had been reported to the police, and each time the police response had been the same - "we'll log it".

The woman then went on to make threats to staff at the health centre, which were again "logged". The police only took action when the client assaulted the receptionist as she was walking to her car after work. It took them 45 minutes to turn up, even though they were called while the assault was in progress, and the officers had no idea that the client had this history of threats.

So forgive me if I don't have much faith in them, they don't seem to rush anywhere, and if I needed a drugged up, knife wielding burglar dealing with I'd bloody well do it myself.
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Old 09-12-2016, 16:42
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I recently received 2 threats from a client, and reported them both (2 separate reports, as they were several days apart). I was told the reports would just be logged and no action would be taken.

I then spoke to the client's mental health worker, in case this was indicative of the client's MH deteriorating. She told me that they had discharged the client, because of several threats to staff. There had also been an incident of criminal damage to the worker's car, followed by another message from the client saying she was responsible.

Each of these events had been reported to the police, and each time the police response had been the same - "we'll log it".

The woman then went on to make threats to staff at the health centre, which were again "logged". The police only took action when the client assaulted the receptionist as she was walking to her car after work. It took them 45 minutes to turn up, even though they were called while the assault was in progress, and the officers had no idea that the client had this history of threats.

So forgive me if I don't have much faith in them, they don't seem to rush anywhere, and if I needed a drugged up, knife wielding burglar dealing with I'd bloody well do it myself.
That isn't my experience, it sounds like you've been unlucky. A lot of people waste their time which is frustrating and means that when there are more important jobs they are held up. If people acted more sensibly and didn't waste their time then they would be more effective.

We obviously don't know what else was going on at the time and whether there were other very serious incidents going on, or whether that report was classed as urgent or what the individual call details were for that incident.
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Old 09-12-2016, 20:21
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I then spoke to the client's mental health worker, in case this was indicative of the client's MH deteriorating. She told me that they had discharged the client, because of several threats to staff. There had also been an incident of criminal damage to the worker's car, followed by another message from the client saying she was responsible...

..The woman then went on to make threats to staff at the health centre, which were again "logged". The police only took action when the client assaulted the receptionist as she was walking to her car after work.
Soo.. Patient potentially poses a risk, yet gets discharged, demonstrates they're a risk to people and property.. And the police were meant to 'do something'? Which presumably involved handing the person back to the health worker to sort out their condition, with or without sectioning.

If I were the receptionist, I'd be wanting to know why the patient was discharged.
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Old 09-12-2016, 23:11
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Can you quote where that information has come from? I find it very hard to believe. I'm happy to ask Leicestershire police on Twitter if it's true as I suspect that cannot be the case and I can't find any articles to corroborate it.
The information came to light during a inquest into a crash on the M1 when an OAP was going the wrong way on the motorway.

An inquest heard one force had no motorway patrols on duty and another had earlier failed to notice Mr Newman's licence had been revoked.

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The inquest was told that Warwickshire police took the first call about a car on the wrong carriageway on the M42, but officers incorrectly recorded the direction he was heading.

The error was put right, but Mr Newman crossed the county boundary into Leicestershire on the A42, where the specialist roads policing unit had finished work for the night.

This meant the force had no specialist motorway patrols in the county
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-37834668
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