Mental health patients to be better protected from unsafe restraint

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Mental health patients to be better protected from unsafe restraint

Reforms aiming to protect mental health patients from unsafe restraint have come into force following the death of a 23-year-old man restrained by Met officers.

Officer must wear body cameras while carrying out restraint

Date - 7th December 2021
By - Chloe Livadeas

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New guidance has been introduced under “Seni’s law”, in memory of Olaseni Lewis, who died in September 2010 after he was restrained by 11 Metropolitan Police officers at Bethlem Royal Hospital in south-east London where he was a...

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