Emergency mental health and suicide prevention

The increasing rates of Section 136 (s136) detentions under the Mental Health Act (England and Wales) have been the subject of national controversy in recent years as they involve the removal of a person, by the police, from a public place to a place of safety when that person is deemed to present an immediate need of care or control owing to mental disorder. Despite the introduction of health-based s136 suites as the preferable Place of Safety, police custody is still widely used for out-of-hours mental health emergencies outside of London and other large cities, and Sussex has been under the spotlight as the county with one of the highest number of people routinely detained in police cells under s136.

https://www.brighton.ac.uk/research-and-enterprise/groups/social-science-policy/research-projects/section-136-in-sussex.aspx