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Police will take a back seat during mental health emergency callouts and allow paramedics and health specialists to lead responses under a new agreement intended to better safeguard thousands of highly vulnerable people.

The new protocol signed by Victoria Police, Ambulance Victoria and the Department of Health will mean about 60,000 mental health emergency callouts a year will now be treated with a “health-led” response, rather than being considered primarily as law-and-order matters.

The move, which Mental…

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