People detained under Section 136 – Mental Health Act 1983. (76A/24)
Request
- The number of people placed in police custody after being detained under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983.
– Please provide the figures for the following calendar years: 2023, 2022, 2021. For example, in 2021, 12 individuals were placed in custody under section 136
- The number of people placed in police custody after being detained under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 – broken down by ethnicity.
– Please provide the figures for the following calendar years: 2023, 2022, 2021.
– For example, in 2021, 12 individuals were placed in custody under section 136. 10 individuals had an ethnic appearance of white British, 1 self-defined as Black British etc.
Please note: if for data protection reasons you are unable to provide the figures broken down by year, please collate the figures over the three-year period.
I.e. between 2021 and 2023, 34 individuals were placed in police custody after being detained under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983, 31 individuals were white etc
If you believe the contents of any such files are exempt from disclosure, please provide summaries of any such exempt files.
Response
Please find attached our response.
Please note that these data should be interpreted with caution.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting those data.
The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when those data are used.