Robbery Response Improves After Police Drop Mental Health Callouts

London’s Metropolitan Police has reported an increase in its robbery response rate after it stopped being the automatic first responder to emergency mental health callouts. The Met said in a statement on Thursday that since the launch of the Right Care, Right Person programme six months ago, officers are attending 500 more in-progress robbery calls a month, which is an increase of 18 percent. Officers are also responding to emergency calls more quickly, attending emergency calls within 12 minutes, 6 percent faster than before the programme was implemented. Police are spending 21 percent more time with victims on the scene compared to the same period last year, Scotland Yard said....