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answer text: The Department is funding mental health street triage pilots to be carried by nine police force areas. The forces involved are the Metropolitan Police Service, British Transport police, West Yorkshire police, West Midlands police, Thames Valley police, North Yorkshire police, Sussex police, Derbyshire Constabulary, and Devon and Cornwall police. Each force is working in partnership with local health commissioners and providers. The pilots will run for one calendar year. A national evaluation will report in early 2015. Police forces in Leicestershire and Cleveland have similar schemes in operation and are reporting improved outcomes for people in mental health crisis who come to the attention of police officers. We expect that the pilots funded by the Department will show similar benefits. Although there are no plans to extend the initiative through central funding, the project will support participating forces and their partners to mainstream the benefits of the schemes, and encourage other areas to adopt similar approaches.
answer given date: 2013-11-07+00:00
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