Some forces told the BBC they saw incidents multiply by four or five times between 2017 and 2022.
Newsnight has been given exclusive access to Merseyside Police's mental health triage team.
"It can help prevent hospital admission, get [patients] more access to more appropriate support and in a more timely fashion," says Owen Winsland, a mental health nurse on the team. "And for the police, it reduces the amount of officer time that is spent dealing with health and social care issues." Some police chiefs believe the rise is down to police increasingly being seen as the first resort for people in a crisis, as well as a lack of capacity in the community to deal with growing mental health demands.
The Home Office said the new approach it is developing "will make it easier for staff in police control rooms to identify the right agency to deploy at the outset when responding to 999 calls concerning individuals experiencing a mental health crisis".
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