Interagency collaboration models for people with mental ill health in contact with the police: a systematic scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify existing evidence on interagency collaboration between law enforcement, emergency services, statutory services and third sector agencies regarding people with mental ill health.

Design

Systematic scoping review. Scoping reviews map particular research areas to identify research gaps.

Data sources and eligibility

ASSIA, CENTRAL, the Cochrane Library databases, Criminal Justice Abstracts, ERIC, Embase, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, PROSPERO and Social Care Online and Social Sciences Citation Index were searched up to 2017, as were grey literature and hand searches. Eligible articles were empirical evaluations or descriptions of models of interagency collaboration between the police and other agencies.

Study appraisal and synthesis

Screening and data ex

SUBMITTER: Parker A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5875664 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature