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Metropolitan Police attendance of mental health related callouts

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Meeting: MQT on 24 February 2022
Session name: MQT on 24/02/2022 between 10:00 and 15:00
Reference: 2022/0691
Question by: Onkar Sahota
Organisation: Labour Group
Asked of: The Mayor
Category: Policing

Question

Metropolitan Police attendance of mental health related callouts

Please provide an annual breakdown of the number of mental health related callouts that the Metropolitan Police have responded to over the last five years.

Answer

Date: Friday 25 February 2022

Please see the below table which shows the number of Mental Health (MH) related call outs the police have responded to between January 2017 and December 2021 inclusive. This is a count of unique computer-aided dispatch (CAD) records with the opening code of 612 (Mental Health), with duplicates for the same incident having been removed.

Year

MH police responded

2017

26,076

2018

26,111

2019

24,730

2020

26,382

2021

27,171

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