Petition Require metal detectors at all mental health hospitals

There have been several accounts in the past couple of months of staff members being stabbed by patients on general mental health units and also accounts of people attempting to bring armed weapons into the units. This puts staff, and other vulnerable patients at significant risk.

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157 signatures

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Date closed 13 September 2019
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