Policing and the mentally ill: international perspectives

 Content: Preface --
 Notes on contributors --
 Introduction / Duncan Chappell --
 Developments in North America and europe --
 Developing a statewide approach to specialized policing response (SPR) program implementation / Melissa Reuland And Laura Draper --
 Improving relationships between police and people with mental illnesses: Canadian developments / Dorothy Cotton And Terry Coleman --
 European police and persons with mental illnesses: a review of the contemporary literature / Rhonda Moore --
 Developments in Australia --
 NSW police force mental health intervention team: forging a new path forward in mental health and policing in the community? / David Donohue And Gina Andrews --
 The mental health intervention program: preventing and resolving mental health crisis situations / Queensland Police Service --
 Core requirements of a best practice model for police encounters involving people experiencing mental illness in Australia: a Victorian perspective / Stuart Thomas --
 Policing and the mentally ill: victimisation and offending in serious mental illness / Tamsin Short --
 The role of mental disorders in use of force incidents between the police and the public / Dragana Kesic --
 Mental health crisis interventions and the politics of police use of deadly force / Katrina Clifford --
 Mental health frequent presenters: key concerns, case management approaches and policy and program considerations for emergency services / Gina Andrews And Eileen Baldry --
 Compounding mental and cognitive disability and disadvantage: police as care managers / Eileen Baldry and Leanne Dowse / Eileen Baldry and Leanne Dowse / Simon Bronitt and Jane Gath --
 Police officer mental illness, suicide and the effects of a policing organisation / Stephen Barron --
 The developing world --
 Community policing and people with mental disorders: responding to developing world challenges in Papua New Guinea / Duncan Chappell --
 Reflections on policing and mental health in Africa: integrating and regulating diverse healing and policing systems / Fleur Beaupert --
 Policing and mentally ill persons in hong Kong / Sharon Ingrid Kwok, T. Wing Lo and Percy Lee.