ABSTRACT
Police are also asked on many occasions to provide emergency assistance to persons experiencing some form of mental health crisis since they are usually the sole agency available for such service delivery on a 24-hour basis. Research conducted across numbers of countries and jurisdictions suggests that somewhere between 5% and 15% of all police engagements with the community involve some form of mental health issue like these (see, for example, Chapter 4 by Donohue and Andrews).
