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M ental I llnessC oncernsA ll | District Forensic Services. ...... Aim of service ... is the rehabilitation and reintegration into the community of offenders ( or those whose behaviour may lead them to offend ( Website emphasis ) with minimal risk to either client or community by the provision of specialist, integrated, mental health treatment and care in appropriate surroundings. Objectives 1.21... to work effectively with other agencies principally police and voluntary agencies, social services, probation, courts and the Crown Prosecution service, to develop integrated local services which will facilitate the succesful provision of "Care in the Community". 1.22...To provide psychiatric assessment and advice, when requested by police surgeons, on people currently being held at local police stations. 1.24 .. To provide assessments, when requested, on offenders referred for such a service from Leicestershire magistrates Courts. Targets .... 1.33 Assist the Social services in the implementation of fast track Community care assessments. It is hoped that a Joint process can be developed between probation, social services and health in support of this. Some hope. People served 3.1.1 the population served is - ... ... AND who, because of their difficult, dangerous or offending behaviour require the special expertise of a forensic service and cannot reasonably be managed by a general psychiatric service, yet who DO NOT require to be cared for in conditions of "maximum"or "medium" security 3.12 ... These will include some people who may be serving community sentences ( such as probation orders or community service orders ... S-P had both ) 4.22 ...psychiatric assessment and advice will be provided at the request of general psychiatrists, on people not known to the District Forensic service currently held in police stations ( S-P ,many times ) 4.27 8.0 Current providers ...Leicestershire Mental Health Service NHS Trust. Lots of room for manoevre there.
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