Definition - Serious Assault Flashcards
means an order with conditions issued by a physician to a person which provides
that person with psychiatric treatment in the community that is less restrictive than being detained in a facility.
Community Treatment Order (CTO)
means behaviour that appears to the police to be “to some extent irrational although not unruly”. [Source: R v.
O’Brien (1983), 9W.C.B. 270 (Ontario County Court)].
Disorderly
means the police officer responsible for coordinating all Mental Health Act needs
and/or concerns within the division; usually the Community Relations Officer or the FOCUS liaison officer.
Divisional Mental Health Liaison Officer
means an Application by Physician for Psychiatric Assessment signed by a doctor within seven (7) days of
examining the person, giving any person authority to take the person named on the application to a psychiatric facility. A
Form 1 is valid for seven (7) days from and including the day it was signed.
Form 1 MHA
(Valid for 7 days)
means a Justice of the Peace Order for Examination directing police officers to take the person in custody to
an appropriate psychiatric facility where a physician may order the person detained for examination. A Form 2 is valid for
seven (7) days from and including the day it was signed.
Form 2 MHA
(Valid for 7 Days)
means an Order for Return of an elopee issued by a psychiatric facility which authorizes a police officer to
return the person without their consent to the psychiatric facility. A Form 9 is valid for a period of one (1) month after the
person is absent without leave.
Form 9 MHA
(Valid for 1 month from the day the person was last absent without leave)
means an Order for Examination issued by the physician who issued the person a Community Treatment
Order (CTO) and
a) Has reasonable cause to believe the person has failed to comply with the conditions under the CTO,
b) the CTO subject or substitute decision–maker has withdrawn consent to the CTO and the subject fails to permit the
physician to review their condition within seventy two (72) hours and the physician believes the subject may cause
harm or suffer deterioration.
A Form 47 authorizes a police officer to take that person into custody and return them to the physician promptly and is valid
for a period of thirty (30) days.
Form 47 MHA
(Valid for 30 days signed )
means any disease or disability of the mind. [Source: Mental Health Act, ss. 1(1)]
A person suffering from a mental disorder may have to live with a long–term breakdown of coping skills including perception,
decision making and problem solving abilities.
Mental Disorder
means a member of the public whose behavior brings them into contact with emergency services, either
because of an apparent need for urgent care within the mental health system, or because they are otherwise experiencing
a mental, emotional or substance use crisis involving behavior that is sufficiently erratic, threatening or dangerous that
emergency services are called in order to protect the person or those around them. This includes persons who may require
assessment under the Mental Health Act.
Person in Crisis
means a legally qualified medical practitioner.
[Source: Health Protection and Promotion Act, ss. 1(1)].
Physician
means a facility for the observation, care and treatment of persons suffering from a mental disorder
and designated as such by the regulation contained in the Mental Health Act. See Procedure 06-04, Appendix B for a list
of designated psychiatric facilities.
Psychiatric Facility
means any incident during which a member experiences, witnesses, or is confronted with
serious injury, death, or mass casualties; any incident in which the member’s life has been imperilled or threatened; or any
situation which is recognized at the time to have the potential to significantly interfere immediately or at a later time with a
member’s ability to function professionally or personally.
Traumatic Critical Incident
