Bed found at last for mentally ill girl held in custody

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A teenage girl who was held in police custody due to mental health problems has been transferred to a hospital bed after a senior police officer took to Twitter to express concerns about her “unacceptable” situation.

In a rare public expression of disapproval, Paul Netherton, assistant chief constable of Devon and Cornwall Police, claimed that the girl had been held in police custody for two days because there were “no beds available”.

“The 16-year-old was detained on Thursday night, sectioned on Friday lunchtime and still no place of safety was available. This can’t be right!” he wrote on Twitter, using the hashtag ‘unacceptable”.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/30/mentally-ill-girl-police-custody-no-nhs-bed
 
Must admit to being appalled that a child with mental health problems had to be kept in a police cell because no beds available in a hospital unit were available.
It's bad enough for an adult but a child 😡😡
 
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