Notts police mental health team to feature in Channel 4 documentary ‘Losing It’

A specialist team of police officers and mental health professionals from Nottinghamshire are set to feature in a Channel 4 documentary.
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Officers from Nottinghamshire Police’s mental health street triage team will appear alongside healthcare professionals from the Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in the series, which is entitled ‘Losing It: Our Mental Health Emergency’.

The first episode will hit our screens tonight (January 21), at 10pm.

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The mental health street triage team are due to feature in episode four of the series, with the broadcast date for that episode still to be confirmed.

PC Rich Boam and Linda Pert, Community Mental Health Nurse for Nottinghamshire Heathcare, from the Street Triage Team who will be appearing in episode four of the series.PC Rich Boam and Linda Pert, Community Mental Health Nurse for Nottinghamshire Heathcare, from the Street Triage Team who will be appearing in episode four of the series.
PC Rich Boam and Linda Pert, Community Mental Health Nurse for Nottinghamshire Heathcare, from the Street Triage Team who will be appearing in episode four of the series.

Assistant Chief Constable Steve Cooper from Nottinghamshire Police said: “Mental health is an area that many members of the public would not immediately associate with the police, but it is a complex issue that our officers, staff and volunteers contend with as part of their everyday work.

“Nottinghamshire Police’s shared mental health street triage team is just one example of how we are doing things differently by working alongside healthcare professionals to provide specialist support to our front-line officers which, ultimately, helps to provide a better, more joined-up service to the public we serve.

“The episode featuring the street triage team is a credit to the patients who have opened up at a particularly difficult time in their lives, as well as to the police officers and healthcare professionals who support them.

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“Those officers and staff come across as professional, compassionate, caring and competent in each of the cases involved and we look forward to this series placing a much-needed focus on what is an incredibly important and complex issue.”

Channel 4 crews joined the team in summer 2019 to demonstrate how police and healthcare professionals work alongside one another to provide more joined-up support to members of the public who come into contact with the police after they have experienced mental health issues.

By working closely together, the team are able to better signpost patients who are experiencing a mental health crisis to more comprehensive and appropriate support.