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When dangerous mental patients go missing, the facility they escape from has to do a better job of communicating that to the public through the police.
That was one of the takeaways from the external review conducted for Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) spent the summer dealing with escapee after escapee.
I’m sure CAMH would bristle at my description of the report and hate that I call the people who fled the mental health facility ‘escapees’ but let’s be blunt, that’s what they are and until this review the organization had done a horrible job dealing with this issue.
When Zhebin Cong, the man who chopped up his roommate with a meat cleaver went missing July 3, it took the CAMH 11 days to notify the public through the Toronto Police Service.
By that time, Cong was long gone and had hopped a flight to China.
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