I've been there. Don't recall people being unusually bellicose.I hope and expect the British police would, for the most part, be similar in the same situation too.
At one part, there's an exchange about him having a temper, and he replies something like 'Of course, I'm from Lofoten'. I've heard of the Lofoten Islands, do the inhabitants have a reputation for being aggressive?
I hope and expect the British police would, for the most part, be similar in the same situation too.
To be fair to all concerned the Norwegian incident appeared to be during the day, an isolated incident, with one person who wasn't being aggressive, and two cops who weren't being hassled, pressured or otherwise distracted. I'd not expect them to be as genial and tolerant on a typical British high street at 11:00pm on a Saturday night. I think, in similar circumstances to those of the Norwegian incident, British plod would mostly be expected to behave much the same.I guess it would depend on a lot of things, the actual police, whether they were being watched, whether it was the end of the shift and they were tired....
A lot of policeman in a lot of countries would have charged him with breach of the peace and quite possible attempting to assault a police officer. While I do think those cops handled it sensitively there might be a case to say that, given it was the 23rd time it had happened, then perhaps it might better in the long run (including for the chap himself) if he did get charged with something.
I think this is a persistent theme. Any number of times you hear "I kept ringing and asking for him to be taken to a mental hospital, they said no, because he hadn't done anything (yet). So I rang the police, they said that he hadn't broken any laws (yet) they couldn't do anything either. Then after a week of these conversations he killed his mother" .I recall a persistent drunk caller. We tried to sign post him to other services to deal with the underlying themes. The agencies concerned said the man should be prosecuted to trigger those services protocols. This was wholly unneeded and inappropriate.
I think this is a persistent theme. Any number of times you hear "I kept ringing and asking for him to be taken to a mental hospital, they said no, because he hadn't done anything (yet). So I rang the police, they said that he hadn't broken any laws (yet) they couldn't do anything either. Then after a week of these conversations he killed his mother" .
S136 MHA was something I dealt with a lot. Understanding if a service user was suffering an acute mental health crisis was not what officers had been trained to consider, nor the fact that once detained the S12 approved medic could say ‘this person isn't suffering am AMHC’ (Line of Duty acronyms). Officers had to ensure they investigated crimes until the mental health status of the service user was proved.
Street triage was a game change in this regard. http://www.nottinghamnortheastccg.nhs.uk/nhs/mental-health-nurses-hit-the-streets/
Spot the dodgy PFM member!
I went pony trekking on a beach in the snow on the Lofoten Islands. The locals seemed very friendly. They collected my group from the port, chatted to us in the minibus, looked after us at the stables and then took us to the next port on the post boat's itinerary. Wonderful memory. It's just a pity that the Northern Lights didn't appear while we were on the beach.I hope and expect the British police would, for the most part, be similar in the same situation too.
At one part, there's an exchange about him having a temper, and he replies something like 'Of course, I'm from Lofoten'. I've heard of the Lofoten Islands, do the inhabitants have a reputation for being aggressive?