Asking for help

HUNTSVILLE, Ont. – Ontario’s police chiefs want the McGuinty government to boost mental health services.

They say an ever growing number of people with mental health problems are getting into trouble with the law.

And they say it’s forcing police to spend more and more time doing work that should be assigned to health care workers.

The Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police is currently meeting Huntsville.

A motion was approved yesterday asking the province to make social services — rather than police — the cornerstone of helping mental health sufferers.

The 150 police chiefs and inspectors will vote on the resolution on Wednesday.

Joe Couto, the association’s director of government relations, told the Toronto Star there is  simply not enough support for people with mental health problems.

A federally commissioned report says 12% of men and 26% of women in federal prisons have mental health problems.

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