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Policing and mental health

Inquiry by the Home Affairs Committee, 9 January 2014 to 30 March 2015. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 1 July 2014: Matilda MacAttram, Director, Black Mental Health UK, Dominic Williamson, Chief Executive, Revolving Doors Agency, and Pat Kenny, Member of Revolving Doors’ National Service User Forum; Deborah Coles, Co-Director, INQUEST, Tony Herbert and Barbara Montgomery, parents of James Herbert
  • 2 September 2014: Inspector Michael Brown
  • 21 October 2014: Lord Victor Adebowale CBE, Chief Executive, Turning Point; David Davis, College of Paramedics, Karla Wilson-Palmer, Royal College of Nursing, and Dr Mary Jane Tacchi, Royal College of Psychiatrists.
  • 28 October 2014: Sergeant Ian Kressinger, Devon and Cornwall Police, and Sergeant Andy Shaw, Essex Police; Chief Constable Simon Cole, Leicestershire Police, Former ACPO lead on mental health, and Mark Smith, Head of Suicide Prevention and Mental Health, British Transport Police
  • 11 November 2014: Rt Hon Norman Lamb MP, Minister of State for Care and Support, and Anne McDonald, Deputy Director, Mental Health & Disability, Department for Health; Rt Hon Mike Penning MP, Minister of State for Policing