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Once had a bi-polar housemate who stopped taking her meds. Within three days she was hallucinating in the shower that she was in Auschwitz like her grandparents. That my Dad who she never met was a concentration camp guard. We called SFPD to 5150 her. Within a few days she was back to normal. Well as "normal" as she ever was.
Detention of Mentally Disordered Persons For Evaluation and Treatment. 5150. Welfare and Institutions Code
Detention of Mentally Disordered Persons For Evaluation and Treatment
5150. When any person, as a result of mental disorder, is a danger to others, or to himself or herself, or gravely disabled, a peace officer, member of the attending staff, as defined by regulation, of an evaluation facility designated by the county, designated members of a mobile crisis team provided by Section 5651.7, or other professional person designated by the county may, upon probable cause, take, or cause to be taken, the person into custody and place him or her in a facility designated by the county and approved by the State Department of Mental Health as a facility for 72- hour treatment and evaluation.
Such facility shall require an application in writing stating the circumstances under which the person's condition was called to the attention of the officer, member of the attending staff, or professional person, and stating that the officer, member of the attending staff, or professional person has probable cause to believe that the person is, as a result of mental disorder, a danger to others, or to himself or herself, or gravely disabled. If the probable cause is based on the statement of a person other than the officer, member of the attending staff, or professional person, such person shall be liable in a civil action for intentionally giving a statement which he or she knows to be false.
-- Michael Pugliese