In total, police region Mitt, which includes Uppsala, Västmanland and Gävleborg, received 6,020 calls related to mental illness in 2022. That does not include missing persons - where the majority of cases are linked to mental illness, according to the police.
- The police see a need for the healthcare system to expand its emergency resources in these emergency situations - when there is no threatening situation, says Marcus Svensson.
It was decided on a psychiatric ambulance
The political decision on such a resource was already made in 2020 when the hospital board commissioned Akademiska to introduce a so-called psychiatry ambulance.
The idea was that it would be in operation in the fall of 2021, but that has not been the case.
However, in a few months Region Uppsala and the University Hospital hope to have a new mobile unit in place.
More about that in the clip.