Mental health advocate joins police response team to explore 'Right Care, Right Person'.

Mental health advocate joins police response team to explore 'Right Care, Right Person'.

Six months on from launching Right Care, Right Person we invited mental health advocate, Antonio Ferreira, out on a shift with a response policing team in South London to see how frontline officers respond to urgent 999 calls and balance supporting people experiencing a mental health crisis.

This is after Antonio kindly gave up his time to deliver talks to new police officer recruits at our police college and shared his first-hand experience of being arrested by police whilst suffering a mental health crisis and attempting to take his own life.

Right Care, Right Person has been introduced to allow those going through a mental health crisis to get the help they need from trained medical professionals and to not feel criminalised by police officers attending.

See how Antonio got on whilst experiencing a typical day in London from a police officer’s point of view and how the new ‘Right Care, Right Person’ scheme is having a positive impact and allows officers to attend calls where their skills are better suited.