21Police assistance

21 Police assistance

21 Police assistance

(1) A police officer to whose notice a police assistance endorsement on a mental health certificate, or a request for assistance by an ambulance officer under this Division, is brought must, if practicable—

(a) apprehend and take or assist in taking the person the subject of the certificate or request to a declared mental health facility, or

(b) cause or make arrangements for some other police officer to do so.

(2) A police officer may enter premises to apprehend a person under this section, and may apprehend any such person, without a warrant and may exercise any powers conferred by section 81 on a person who is authorised under that section to take a person to a mental health facility or another health facility.

Note.

Section 81 sets out the persons who may take a person to a mental health facility and their powers when doing so.