Confused people keep police from the street – AD.nl

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The police have to make again last year with often gotten confused and overwrought people. Agents had almost 60,000 times rely on notifications for nuisance by confused and overwrought people: a sharp increase compared to 2013. According to figures that released the police after an appeal to the Law public administration

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The number of reports of nuisance by confused and overwrought people is increasing every year. Last year the increase was 14 percent, from 52 297 in 2013 to 59 669 in 2014. Over the period from 2011 (40,000) to 2014 (almost 60,000) even it is an increase of over 47 percent

Henk van Essen senior police officers of the National Police reports that the police have their hands full with the confused people. Confused people ,, his patients. They hear not handcuffed in a police car, let alone in a police cell, if they have not committed any crimes. A significant part of the work of the police is currently related to psychiatric and addiction problems and psychosocial problems. ”

Crisis
Where the increase is due precisely to , the police can not say with certainty. One of the possible factors that within the mental health (mental health) people increasingly be handled internally. ,, But the economic crisis could play, ” said Julia Huizing, spokeswoman for the National Police. ,, And we register more and more, which also plays a role. ”

Huizing gives the example of a boy 141 times out of a care facility has run 139 times and has been brought back by the police. Or of a confused elderly man calling a few times a day, the police, because he is his store everything and think there is broken.

The figures show that gets the police also more prone to nuisance associated with alcohol and drugs. Although last year but was a slight increase, the number of reports from 2012 to 2014 still increased by nearly 20,000 to over 25,000. In public drunkenness is the number of reports increased from over 4,000 in 2012 to nearly 8700 in 2013 and 9200 than in 2014.