Detentions under mental health act by ethnicity

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Dear West Yorkshire 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)

Freedom of Information,

Good morning,

Thank you for your request for information which has been logged today.

Your request will now be considered and you will receive a response within the statutory timescale of 20 working days as defined by the Act, subject to the information not being exempt.

If you no longer require the information, please inform us at your earliest convenience.

Kind Regards
Nicole Smith
Disclosure Assistant
Information Management
Digital Policing

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Freedom of Information,

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Good Morning,

 

Please note that the information you have requested is already published
online via the following link: [1]Police powers and procedures, England
and Wales, year ending 31 March 2020 second edition - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
and clicking onto the ‘Detentions under the Mental Health Act (1983)’
document.

 

The figures ending 31 March 2020 are available and the figures ending
March 2021 will be published when available.

 

As such, we now consider your request closed.

 

Kind Regards,

 

Alix Whitfield

Disclosure Officer

Information Management

Digital Policing

West Yorkshire Police

Admin 4, Laburnum Road, Wakefield WF1 3QS

 

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Dear West Yorkshire Police,

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

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

In your reponse you incorrectly state the figures are already published by the Home Office.

The Home Office does indeed publish information on mental health detentions, which is what I have based my questions on. However, no information is supplied that crross references ethnicity of the detainees with the other variables I have requested - eg type of vehicle used, place of saefty. Only an overall count of detentions by ethnicity is provided.

As such, your response has failed to answer my request and I would ask that you open an internal review, and provide me with the data requested.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/d...

Yours faithfully,
Harriet

Freedom of Information,

Dear Sir/Madam,

Thank you for your request for an internal review which has been logged today.

Kind regards
Emily Dawson
Disclosure Officer
Information Management
Digital Policing
West Yorkshire Police, Admin 4, Laburnum Road, Wakefield WF1 3QS
Telephone: 01924 296006

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Dear Sir/Madam,

 

Please see thew attached document in relation to your internal review.

 

Please accept our apologies in the delay.

 

Kind regards

Emily Dawson

Disclosure Officer

Information Management

Digital Policing

West Yorkshire Police, Admin 4, Laburnum Road, Wakefield WF1 3QS

Telephone: 01924 296006

 

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error, please use the reply function to notify us immediately and
permanently delete the email and any attachment(s) from your computer or
electronic device. West Yorkshire Police reserves the rights to routinely
monitor incoming and outgoing e-mail messages and cannot accept liability
or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the content and, as
internet communications should not be considered as secure, for changes
made to this message after it was sent. Any views or opinions expressed in
this message may not be those of the West Yorkshire Police. This email was
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on leaving the Force was found to be virus and malware free. You must take
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