Good intentions, yes. Enthusiasm, yes. Awareness of law, no.
@policecbecity citywide clean sweeps seem more efficient but are in reality dehumanising. The police has traditionally held responsibility wrt wandering mentally ill destitute persons, but a mass approach is wrong ...
@policecbecity citywide clean sweeps seem more efficient but are in reality dehumanising. The police has traditionally held responsibility wrt wandering mentally ill destitute persons, but a mass approach is wrong ...
https://twitter.com/policecbecity/status/1550532646458966016
We urge you @ipspolicetn @sameerangs @CollectorCbe to instead refer the @NHM_TN draft policy for homeless mentally ill and work towards a community based, individualised approach that is in compliance with current mental health, disability & privacy law.
nhm.tn.gov.in/en/node/6236
nhm.tn.gov.in/en/node/6236
Finally to quote Madras High Court's Justice Prabha Sridevan in Nathalie Vandenbyvanghe, 2008 indiankanoon.org/doc/1113887/?t…
16. Every person wandering on the street is not mentally ill. The police should not "round up" people as if they were stray cattle and deal with them as such...
16. Every person wandering on the street is not mentally ill. The police should not "round up" people as if they were stray cattle and deal with them as such...
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"Each individual should be dealt with as a separate case, he/she shall be treated as a human being with all the Constitutional rights. This will be possible if the police/NGO or any other person bring up each case individually as and when it arises."
#MHCA #RPDA @mhwindia
"Each individual should be dealt with as a separate case, he/she shall be treated as a human being with all the Constitutional rights. This will be possible if the police/NGO or any other person bring up each case individually as and when it arises."
#MHCA #RPDA @mhwindia
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