Canadian police agencies and their interactions with persons with a mental illness: A systems approach

Police Practice and Research

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 301-314

  Cotton, Dorothy ^a   Coleman, Terry G ^b  

^a Correctional Service Canada ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

CACP: Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police; Canada; Mental health system; MHA: Mental Health Act; Person with mental illness; PMI; Police; Systems approach; Systems Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955412176     PISSN: 15614263     EISSN: 1477271X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15614261003701665     Document Type: Article

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