First Arrest:
I was getting failed by my mental health team, known as the crisis team. They often refused to come to my aid when in need of emergency mental health support. My crisis team would often call the police to 136 under the mental health act which led to the police getting fed up seeing me on a daily basis.
I am a 24 year old mixed raced female who has never got in trouble with the law, often volunteers in the community, until I got diagnosed with EUPD. I found my condition made me want to harm myself.
On a bad day I got sexually assaulted and decided to attempt suicide. The ambulance found me and the ambulance called the police because they were frightened I was a high risk to myself. The ambulance told the male police officer I didn’t have mental capacity, this made no difference, the police treated me like a functioning adult who could make decisions. The officer in present said to me I was faking my mental problems, you’re doing this on purpose and we can arrest you for wasting our time. In response I told the police officer I did not call you. The male officer then asked me “Are you going to the hospital? and I said no, I want to go home to die. I then was arrested for wasting police time.
After one day the case was immediately thrown out in court. It was discounted because a suicide attempt/refusing to go to hospital is not wasting police time. In support of the mental capacity act I have the right to have choice, to make unwise decisions therefore the police officers were acting immorally and were just angry to see me.
Second time:
This police officer was bullying me in the community for months. Blue eyes, blonde hair. He often threatened me in public areas like the hospital and in parks. The male police officer threatened to arrest me for all sorts and I tried my best to ignore him. The male police officer did this in front of my family, strangers and other police officers.
For the second time I was at a park, I called my mental health team for help and again they refused to do a home visit. I then attempted suicide. The mental health team again called police and ambulance. The officer who was bullying me turned up and I was vomiting after my suicide attempt/crying.
He doesn’t help me, he doesn’t 136 me. The male officer arrests me for public nuisance. The male officer said he was arresting me because I call 999 services too much and because he doesn’t like me. He actually said this in front of witnesses. Again this was also investigated by police and the police found I was not calling 999. It was the charities and my mental health team. My solicitor told me to sue the police for this but I can’t afford to sue them. All charges were discounted/dropped again.
Extra info…
In the community I have been physically assaulted by the police and left in a cell, able to harm myself and left unsupervised by the police.
Sadly, the police also failed to safeguard me or support me when I was being exploited sexually. The police told me “the girls can call us themselves” when I raised welfare concerns for the other girls when we were getting pressured to have sex and forced to get pregnant. The police also didn’t signpost me to any support or the NRM. My social worker had to do it. All the police did was complete a crime reference number.
I have severe mental health problems. I have decided to stick up for myself in hope to receive an apology via complaints submitted to the police but the police have the right to take as long as they want to respond to my complaints. This is unfair and wrong.
It’s affected my life deeply, nightmares, trauma, psychosis trauma- seeing the officers, and even though all the arrests above were dropped it’s 50/50 that it can turn up on my DBS. The police have ruined my life. The police have no sympathy or care for vulnerable people.
But I do have one favourite officer I do have to vouch for. She hugged me, supportive especially when she found out I was arrested and even stuck up for me when the police were putting me down.
All that I have learned is if the police have it in for you then sadly you are doomed.
Constabulary: West Midlands Police
Timespan: 2024
Did you report it to the police?: Yes
Do you want to revisit this with the police?: Prefer Not To Say
Your ethnicity: Black
Have you experienced suicidality due to this?: Attempted suicide more than once
Are you disabled as defined under the Equality Act 2010?: Prefer not to say
