Mental health staff to ride alongside response officers in Cambridgeshire

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Mental health staff to ride alongside response officers in Cambridgeshire

Staff from Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust accompany officers in two specialist response cars, the second of which began operating following the success of the first.

PC Rich Jenkins and advanced nurse practitioner Gemma Harlow with the mental health car

Date - 13th January 2023
By - Cash Boyle

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Mental health staff are to ride alongside police called out to crises in Cambridgeshire, as part of a new initiative that is hoped will reduce the amount of time officers spend at related incidents. The scheme will see specialists from...

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