Northern Light
Superstar
The mother seems to forget she is the one who called the police and wanted them to take her daughter to the hospital, which the police can not do.
Are you on the wrong side of everything?
First off............if one calls police, because someone they care about is acting irrationally or out of control that does not the mean they call the police to ensure that person dies.
They're looking for safety and containment.
I'm not going to lay blame in this case when I wasn't there and don't have the full facts at my disposal, except to say that was not and should be the expected outcome.
Whether a mental health nurse being present would have led to a better outcome is not knowable since that wasn't done.
Which is a damned fine reason it should be on a go-forward basis.
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AS to the next bit............you simply have either lied or have no idea what you're talking about, neither is acceptable.
Police brings person to physician
When a person is acting in a disorderly manner, the Act allows the police to take someone already in custody to a designated psychiatric facility for examination by a physician if they believe that the person is an immediate danger to themself, an immediate danger to others, or not able to care for himself or herself to an extent that physical impairment will result. The officer must believe, implicitly, that the immediate nature of the threat precludes the use of section 16 (Bringing Information before a Justice of the peace).[1]
If one goes on.........a physician may order a 72-hour hold.
Read up on it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_Health_Act_(Ontario)#Police_brings_person_to_physician
It's more than fine not to know everything.
None of us do............not even close.
But if you don't know what you're talking about; don't pretend you do.