Tasers have no place in mental health care
For more than 10 years, Tasers have been used against patents in locked psychiatric settings, without monitoring or investigation. This practice must end
By: Matilda MacAttram ‘What we seeing is a health service relying on a forensic solution to meet clinical need, and yet policing really has no place in mental healthcare.’ Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA An amendment to the policing and crime bill tabled by former health minister Norman Lamb in support of Black Mental Health UK’s campaign […]
