00:02Fixated threat assessment centres kind of emerged about 20 years ago initially in the UK and then
00:07in Australia and also in the Netherlands and other parts of Europe and they're joint multi-agency
00:12centres so they bring together forensic mental health policing and correctional services and
00:18also in some contexts victim support services. Their real job is to identify cases where people
00:24with serious mental illness might be in a position where they're not well treated and their symptoms
00:30are very active and in that specific context they're engaging in behaviours that probably are
00:35causing harms to themselves in terms of their own wellbeing but also potentially to other people
00:39and so the F-TACs, the Fixated Threat Assessment Centres, try to identify those cases early through
00:45their contacts with public figures and other kinds of agencies and use that to get people back into
00:50care. Now what we're trying with the intimate partner homicide and family violence here is a
00:56little different because mental illness isn't, doesn't play quite the same role but we're using
01:01some of the same principles to say hey we can bring together joint agency embedded working to find ways
01:08of identifying cases that could be of concern and making sure those cases are linked in and that
01:14really comes from work done by one of the people on our team Hayley Boxall as well as other colleagues
01:20around the world saying there seems to be a group of people who have these fixations, these abnormally
01:25intense preoccupations with the grievance and that seems to be driving them to work.
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