Detentions under mental health act by ethnicity

The request was refused by Humberside Police.

Dear Humberside Police,

I am writing to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act for data on people detained by the force under the Mental Health Act.

For the 2019-20 and the 2020-21 financial years, please tell me:

1) The number of people detained under the Mental Health Act, broken down by officer-perceived ethnicity

2) The type of vehicle officers used to transport those detained to a place of safety, broken down by officer-perceived ethnicity. Please split these by ambulance, police vehicle, other health vehicle, other, not known, or none (already at a place of safety).

3) The place of safety used for those detained, broken down by officer-perceived ethnicity. Please split these by police station, A&E, private home, health based place of safety, other, and not known.

4) For those people transported using a police vehicle, please specify whether an ambulance was requested, broken down by officer perceived ethnicity.

5) For those people detained and taken to a police station, please specify the reason for the police station being used, broken down by officer perceived ethnicity. For instance in England, officers may take a person to a police station as a place of safety if they are over 18 and their behaviour poses an imminent risk of serious injury or death to that person or others (abbreviated in Home Office data as 'conditions in Regulations were met').

6) For those people detained and taken to a police station, please provide a breakdown of their officer perceived ethnicity and the duration in hours of their stay in the police station.

7) For those people detained and taken to a police station, please provide a count of those who were arrested for committing an offence, broken down by officer perceived ethnicity.

For all ethnicity breakdowns, please use Home Office/ONS categorisations. These consist of 'White', 'Black', 'Asian', 'Mixed', and 'Other'. Please include Chinese persons in the category of Other.

Yours faithfully,

Harriet Clugston

(Please note I am using a WhatDoTheyKnowAccount set up by my colleague Claire Wilde but my name is Harriet Clugston)

Information Compliance, Humberside Police

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Dear Ms Clugston,

Reference No: 002233/21

I write in regards to your recent request.

Please find attached response.

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Yours sincerely,

 

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Dear Humberside Police,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Humberside Police's handling of my FOI request 'Detentions under mental health act by ethnicity'.

In your response you state to obtain all the detail requested would involve manually reviewing each record.

However, this strikes me as unusual since all of the information requested is to some extent already provided to the Home Office by Humberside Police , except for the ethnicity breakdown. Type of vehicle, place of safety, whether an ambulance was called - these are all fields in the Home Office database to which Humberside Police submits data. The ethnicity of those detained is also recorded and provided to the Home Office, but is not cross referenced with the other variables. But this suggests that Humberside Police does have a way of electronically recording specific data on such detentions without a manual review.

Please see the HO collection entitled 'Police powers and procedures England and Wales statistics', file name 'Detentions under the Mental Health Act (1983): police powers and procedures': https://www [dot] gov.uk/government/statistics/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2020

Could you therefore please clarify what part of the data it is that you are unable to provide?

Yours faithfully,
Harriet

Information Compliance, Humberside Police

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need to be directed to - [3][email address] or
any requests relating to Road Traffic Accidents/Collisions to –
[4][email address]

 

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department (as per location) as a matter of urgency.

 

Non-Molestation Orders/Legal Aid/Family Court Disclosure/Homeless
Applications need to directed to –
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DBS queries need to be directed to -
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Many thanks

The ICU Team

 

 

 

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Dear Ms Wilde,

Reference No: 003070/21

I write in regards to your recent request.

Please find attached response.

If you have any questions regarding this request, please contact the
Information Compliance Unit on the email below.

Yours sincerely,

 

Information Compliance Unit
Humberside Police Headquarters
Priory Road
Hull
HU5 5SF

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