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IPCC calls on all forces to improve mental health protocol

A Nony Mouse 7 years to conclude this investigation is too long for the police and family members involved. Secondly some of the learning points which came from the investigation sound ludicrous in the context of what happened with James. How are PCs supposed to contain someone or verbally de-escalate a person who is running in and out of traffic? Recommendations like that appear to have been written by someone who hasn't had to deal with a person with mental health problems and who won't listen to logical arguments as well as having an intention to hurt themselves or other people. Lastly where were the mental health professionals who should have been the most appropriate people to have helped James before the incident and when the incident took place. Police were the only people to respond but they wouldn't have had to if he had had better treatment from the NHS in the first place. Where is the investigation into their lack of support?

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