Sad your probably well earned view of Social Workers. I was a Social Worker for 33 years and tried to always be cooperative with and friendly to other service types like police and EMT's. In South Carolina, USA we have a law similar to Section 2 but the police take the person to the Mental Health clinic. As long as someone would open the door, police handled the situation. Usually I called in information to the clinic and/or police after I or family went to the Court for the emergency commital papers. That way both knew what to expect. I have been known to ride with police to pick up a child, visit jail at 3 AM, take clients to Mental Health appointments and anything else I could do to help "the team". On the other hand, when I asked a doctor to send either me or the client to the state hospital because the client was driving me nuts, he obliged and sent the client. The deal was for me to help another of his clients get on Social Security. Helping each other pays off for all of us.