Understanding the Difference: Metropolitan Police s136 Form vs. BTP Section s136 Form

Understanding the Difference: Metropolitan Police s136 Form vs. BTP Section s136 Form

Key Differences between MPS forms and BTP Forms

  1. The British Transport Police will start using Thalamos' software to complete & share s136 forms.
  2. From 31 July 2025, your Place of Safety should expect digital s136 forms from BTP.
  3. This Thalamos software is similar to but is a different version to the one used by the Met Police. This means the way POS receive and access BTP s136 forms will be different to how they receive and access MPS s136 forms.
  4. MPS are expected to transition to the same version in the upcoming months.

This overview explains the key differences between the s136 Form used by the Metropolitan Police and the British Transport Police. The purpose of this table is to highlight key differences in the process, and will point you to correct guidance to provide more information. 

Summary Table

Process
Metropolitan Police Service s136 Form
British Transport Police s136 Form​

How the Police will share the form

  • Individual email address pre-populated for POS

  • Officer can share via email or verbally share the access code with the NHS, who can access via a URL.

  • Multiple email addresses can be pre-populated for each POS.

  • Officers can share via email, or verbally share a URL and an incident code with the NHS.

How will you access the form

  • Via email notification

  • Required to enter your email address, access code and site code

  • Do not require a Thalamos account to access the form.

  • Via email notification

  • Required to confirm your email address

  • If you do not have an eMHA account you will have to enter an access code.

  • If you do have an eMHA account you will be logged in and can select

    a relevant team.

How the Police & NHS record the handover and Police presence

  • Officer confirms the verbal handover

  • Officer initiates handover on their device

  • NHS accepts the handover and records their name, email address, and signature.

  • The Officer is notified the handover has been accepted.

  • NHS confirm if ongoing police presence is required and provide reasoning.

  • Officer will be notified of NHS input and will indicate if they will remain at POS.

  • All actions are captured in the activity log available to NHS who have access to the form.

Monitoring/outcome form

  • Monitoring form available

  • Option to indicate that this information will be recorded on Trust EPR.

  • Outcome form not available

  • This will only be available for Thalamos clients who have requested this to be configured.

Sharing the form with colleagues and MHL Teams

  • Can download the form as PDF to share & store using regular process.

  • If the handover has been accepted you can transfer the form to another POS email address.

  • Can download the form as PDF to share & store using regular process.

  • Can can click ‘send’ in the software to share forms on to colleagues regardless of if they have an eMHA account.

Further integration with eMHA

Not currently available, planned for the end of the year.

  • The s136 form will be integrated into eMHA.

  • If you have an eMHA account, once you access the form it will be available in your team caseload.

  • The form can be reconciled with a eMHA record linked with an NHS number. It will be available on the patient record.

  • We have further information on the integration with can be found here.

Help Guides with further information

Access further guidance here.Access further guidance here.

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