News 24 | The Public Prosecution Office clarifies how to deal with a mentally ill defendant during investigations

The Public Prosecution has reiterated that the suspect who is suspected of having a mental or mental illness, in the investigation stage, in case of committing a crime, receives a state of mental health assessment. To determine his criminal responsibility and the proposed treatment plan.

The Public Prosecution affirmed that mental disorder is a defect in thinking, mood, perception, memory, or other mental abilities, some or all of them, stressing that the mental patient is the one who suffers or is suspected of suffering from a psychological disorder, and that the guardian is the person who completes the legal guardianship of the soul.

She noted that psychological disturbance is severe if it causes a defect in two or more of the following functions, which are “good judgment and ability to make decisions, normal human behavior compared to local custom, and fulfilling the basic requirements of life.”

She pointed out that these jobs include discerning reality and knowing and insight into the nature of his illness or knowing the reasons that led to him and his acceptance of treatment, and it does not include psychological disorder according to the mental health care system who has mere mental retardation or immoral behavior or abuse of alcohol, drugs and psychotropic substances or drug addiction or addiction.

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