Source | Mental health crisis powers
Section 136 Mental Health Act Detentions
61,128 latest-year detentions
233 metric records
Year ending Mar 2025 latest period
Combined Section 136 catalogue page for Home Office force-level detention data and NHS England health-based place-of-safety data.
Coverage: England and Wales police forces, with NHS England health-based place-of-safety returns.
Newest content date: 31 Mar 2025. This describes the content held here, not the date this page was opened.
How this source is collected and updated
- Collection method
- Home Office CSV / NHS England statistics
- Observed update
- Updated occasionally
- Last record written
- 17 Sep 2026
- Latest/source range
- Year ending Mar 2025
Records written on 1 of the last 90 days; last write 17 Sep 2026.
Publisher's stated schedule: Annual. That is the publisher's own description, not a measurement of this copy.
Source components
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| Name | Description | Records |
|---|---|---|
| Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) | Police-recorded S136 Mental Health Act detentions per force | 1,691 |
| Section 136 MHA Uses (NHS England) | S136 uses at health-based places of safety per NHS trust | 156 |
Metric records
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| Body | Metric | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sussex Police | S136 place of safety — A&E | 746 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) |
| Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust | S136 uses (health-based place of safety) | 645 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Uses (NHS England) |
| Thames Valley Police | S136 place of safety — A&E | 270 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) |
| Thames Valley Police | S136 detentions | 1,126 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) |
| Thames Valley Police | S136 place of safety — Health-based | 827 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) |
| Thames Valley Police | S136 place of safety — Not known | 14 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) |
| Thames Valley Police | S136 place of safety — Police station | 12 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) |
| Thames Valley Police | S136 place of safety — Private home | 3 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) |
| Warwickshire Police | S136 detentions | 72 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) |
| Warwickshire Police | S136 place of safety — A&E | 17 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) |
| Warwickshire Police | S136 place of safety — Health-based | 50 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) |
| Warwickshire Police | S136 place of safety — Not known | 5 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) |
| West London NHS Trust | S136 uses (health-based place of safety) | 80 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Uses (NHS England) |
| West Mercia Police | S136 place of safety — Other | 1 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) |
| West Mercia Police | S136 place of safety — A&E | 42 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) |
| West Mercia Police | S136 place of safety — Health-based | 241 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) |
| West Mercia Police | S136 place of safety — Not known | 7 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) |
| West Mercia Police | S136 detentions | 291 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) |
| West Midlands Police | S136 place of safety — A&E | 1,211 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) |
| West Midlands Police | S136 place of safety — Health-based | 846 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) |
| West Midlands Police | S136 place of safety — Not known | 222 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) |
| West Midlands Police | S136 place of safety — Other | 6 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) |
| West Midlands Police | S136 place of safety — Police station | 118 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) |
| West Midlands Police | S136 detentions | 2,403 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) |
| West Yorkshire Police | S136 detentions | 1,102 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) |
| West Yorkshire Police | S136 place of safety — Police station | 2 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) |
| West Yorkshire Police | S136 place of safety — Not known | 1,086 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) |
| West Yorkshire Police | S136 place of safety — Health-based | 6 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) |
| West Yorkshire Police | S136 place of safety — A&E | 8 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) |
| Wiltshire Police | S136 place of safety — Health-based | 140 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) |
| Wiltshire Police | S136 place of safety — A&E | 52 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) |
| Wiltshire Police | S136 detentions | 195 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) |
| Wiltshire Police | S136 place of safety — Private home | 3 count | Year ending Mar 2025 | Section 136 MHA Detentions (Home Office) |