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Mental health call outs: ‘the (police) uniform cools things down’
Professor Martin Webber, from the University of York’s School for Business and Society and Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre, told Police Oracle that while officers are vital in mental health emergency responses, efforts to provide care to those in need are being hampered by a "lack of coordination" between agencies.
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