the Safety in retspsykiatrien has been in the spotlight after prominent bandefigur fled from the chamber.

It is much easier to get away from a retspsykiatrisk department than from a prison or detention centre, according to a statement, Danish Regions has made for the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

And often try inmates in prisons or detention to cheat to be transferred to, for example, a psychiatric department.

The Bo Provide Sørensen, chairman of the Fængselsforbundet, which is a trade union for the prison guards.

– I have experienced This plenty of times. I can’t count the number of times I have been exposed to some who have tried to fake on the hospitals or the psychiatric department.

– I will not be able to say whether this is just because they have an experience of, that it is easier to escape. There can be many reasons that you want to get on a psychiatric unit, instead of being in a prison, ” says Bo Yde Sørensen.

The inmates who try to cheat their way to another department, is not always equally inventive. But it can be difficult to figure out whether they are truly sick or not.

– It gets difficult when people are either mentally ill or mentally ill. So it can be difficult to distinguish the difference. Nakitbahis

– for Example, I have experienced an inmate there for several months, had urine and feces out of his cell. It was difficult to find out whether he was trying to achieve one or another, or whether there was something wrong, ” says Bo Yde Sørensen.

In the course of a year – from the 1. July 2018 to 1. July 2019 – was registered 11 so-called blow-off from the retspsykiatriske departments.

In the same period there were registered nine cases, where the inmates in Danish prisons and detention improperly got free.

Prisons and arresthusene houses over six times as many convicted and pre-trial detainees as retspsykiatrien.

the Security of the retspsykiatrien has been in focus, after the Tuesday succeeding the perpetrators to free the 24-year-old Hemin Dilshad Saleh from a retspsykiatrisk department at Slagelse Hospital.

He has a leading role in the bandegrupperingen NPV from Nørrebro in Copenhagen and was remanded in custody in a case of an aggravated assault.

According to Bo, Grant Sorensen, there have been cases of similar fangeflugter from less pre-trial detention centres.

Why are “dangerous bandeforbrydere” placed greater places with high security where such incidents according to the Bo to Provide Sørensen would not be able to happen.

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