Met plan to stop mental health response will leave thousands ‘without support’

Health groups raise alarm after Sir Mark Rowley says he will order officers not to attend 999 calls about mental health incidents

Thousands of people in a mental health crisis will be left without support" under worrying and inappropriate police plans to walk away" from emergency incidents, health chiefs have said.

In a letter seen by the Guardian, the Metropolitan police comissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, said that from September he would order the force's police officers not to attend thousands of 999 calls about mental health incidents.