The Health Ministry is urged to collaborate with public and private universities, occupational health practitioners and mental health experts to tackle mental health issues to prevent spur-of-the-moment crime.
“They can collaborate to develop an in-house ‘psychological first aid’ module to help employers and workers provide early assistance to those with mental health issues at the workplace or to train more personnel in the counselling field so that those with mental health problems could be identified and assisted in the early stage.
“A spur-of-the-moment crime is an offence with no criminal intent and most of the time, it involves those with no criminal record, but what triggered such a crime could be prevented,” he explained.
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