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Victoria, British Columbia

CANADA

We are mental health advocates who have been looking into Policy Concerns in regards to the Involuntary Committal Process in British Columbia.

Citizens who have a non-treatable mental illness may sometimes be refused treatment and turned away in ER when seeking help.

Capable citizens could be detained and drugged and committed against their will without being allowed their Charter Rights call to a lawyer and or call to family if misinformation is presented to medical staff.

Police can detain citizens under Section 28 of the BC Mental Health Act.  Police do not have to see the citizen doing anything.  Police can just rely on information provided by a caller.  This is very concerning for us, when in fact some police give to medical staff only a subjective verbal report and nothing in writing.

We need to have police provide medical staff with evidence based written objective reports.  Medical staff should not have to second guess why police bring citizens to them for mental health assessments.