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<p>Many police forces have local joint initiatives with health partners to respond
to people with mental health issues. For example, approximately 38 police forces in
England have access to a Street Triage service – where mental health professionals
accompany police officers on patrol and all forces have access to mental health partners
who provide advice and support them in dealing with the public. Information on the
average number of responses to calls from people with a mental health issue, by the
police, is an operational matter for individual police forces and is not held centrally
by the Home Office.</p>
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