Ahmed Sualim has done a whole lot of bolting in his life.

Bolted from Peoples Jewellers at the Scarborough Town Centre — with a two-carat diamond ring priced at $14,999.

Bolted from Peoples Jewellers on Rexdale Blvd. — with a two-carat diamond ring priced at $6,299.

Bolted from Peoples Jewellers in Fairview Mall — with a three-carat ring priced at $40,000.

Bolted from Mappins Jewellers at Square One Shopping Mall — with a diamond ring priced at $6,299.

Bolted from Jewels by Koby in the Lawrence Square Shopping Centre with a two-carat ring priced at $9,000.

Bolted from a Days Inn hotel on Wilson Ave. after reaching over and grabbing $2,000 out of the cash register.

Bolted from the Comfort Inn Hotel on Rexdale Blvd. — with $850 from the cash. “Gimme the money! Gimme the money!”

Bolted twice — which is to say went AWOL twice — while on accompanied passes from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Bolted again on an accompanied day pass from CAMH on Monday.

Oops, there goes another one.

Of course, the police media release made no mention of Sualim as a resident of the CAMH forensics unit. Merely said a man was missing from the Queen Street W. and Ossington Ave. area, which has now come to be understood as code for CAMH. The blotter item did say cops were “concerned for the safety of the public” and, if spotted, “do not approach,” contact police.

In some of the aforementioned crimes — as well as other holdups — Sualim brandished a silver revolver.

While the robberies were hardly sophisticated — grab ‘n’ go — they do not suggest a disordered mind. If mentally ill, Sualim seemed to know what he was doing and had thought it out to the point that he armed himself with a gun. (Some of the robberies were committed with an unknown accomplice.)

All of the offences occurred in the last week of January, 2014, and at least on one occasion, twice in a day.

Three months later, Sualim — he’d been identified by video surveillance and fingerprints, arrested at his home — was found guilty on the charges and given a five and a half year prison sentence. However, the guilty verdict was overturned on appeal in 2017 and a new trial ordered. In August, 2017, Sualim was found “Not Criminally Responsible.” Though he’d already served his full sentence, Sualim was ordered detained at CAMH.

He’s been diagnosed with schizophrenia, a condition exacerbated by his use of “substances, primarily marijuana or cannabis,” as stated in Sualim’s most recent annual review before the Ontario Review Board, in a decision released in May.

Apart from his two AWOLs, Sualim, now 27, had also “attempted absence” on one other occasion, whatever that means.

This time ‘round, Sualim was reported missing to police at 10:30 Monday morning. He was picked up by cops from 12 Division — CAMH is located in 14 Division — at 5:05 p.m. Police won’t say specifically where he was found and whether he was taken into custody without resistance.

Unlike fellow NCR patient Zhebin Cong, who’d killed a friend with a cleaver, Sualim didn’t get on a plane for parts unknown. Cong fled while on a day pass July 3 but police didn’t tell the public about his escape until 11 days later. In the meantime, yet another “violent and dangerous” CAMH patient had moseyed away, though he was quickly found and returned.

This is getting ridiculous. Especially since, in the aftermath of the Cong disappearance and public outcry, CAMH said it was launching an internal review — all passes and privileges henceforth reassessed by the physician-in-chief — and additional precautions would be instituted immediately.

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And we don’t know how frequently this sort of thing happens at the highly-regarded hospital. The Star asked Tuesday for statistics on patients who have left CAMH without permission or failed to return from community passes but officials have yet to provide them — if indeed such tabulations exist.

It bears repeating that mentally ill people are no more violently inclined than anyone and severe conditions such as schizophrenia can be ameliorated with medication. When patients take them, which is hard to supervise if they’re outside the hospital.

But Sualim clearly had a propensity for putting himself in volatile situations, with a weapon in hand.

Hearing documents state that, despite engagement with his treatment team, Sualim had not made any progress, certainly not to the point where approval for community residence could be given. At the April hearing, all parties — his doctors included — agreed that the detention order should be continued.

The board was unanimous in determining that Sualim “continues to represent a significant threat to the safety of the public.” He has a history of “psychotic symptoms, including … grandiose and thought broadcasting delusions, auditory hallucinations and gross disorganization of thoughts and behaviour.” There is a long history of alcohol and cannabis use, non-compliance with community treatment orders and leaving the hospital without permission.

He is “at high risk of acutely decompensating from a psychic perspective.” Further: “When acutely psychotic and disinhibited, he will become frustrated with his lack of financial means and inability to obtain material goods. This could very well result in engaging in criminal activity” such as those he’d committed before.

Sualim, the report continues, has a poor grasp of how the pass system works, the board’s jurisdiction, his mental illness and the necessity of taking medication. In April, that antipsychotic medication was already at a “maximized” level. He had not, during the eight months he’d been at CAMH, availed himself of programs offered to address substance abuse.

If Sualim’s non-compliance was so extensively manifest in hospital, what was he doing in the community, where he could easily access the drugs he liked, particularly cannabis, when he’d been diagnosed with “cannabis use disorder”?

Returning patients to the community, releasing them from detention, is always the goal, no less for those who’ve been found NCR even for severe crimes. This is appropriate and reasonable, given that most patients can be effectively treated. Only a small fraction of NCR detainees reoffend upon release, with monitoring. It is, of course, a subjective determination, based on psychiatric assessments, when an individual is fit for discharge.

But surely it’s unreasonable for three patients (at least) to bolt from CAMH care, within or without the facility, in mere weeks. Why was Sualim, as a repeat-bolter, even out there. And what does “accompanied pass” even mean when the accompanier — who’s that? — can so easily lose him?

That undermines public confidence in an esteemed institution. That fosters distrust of the whole “not criminally responsible” designation.

There’s no indication Sualim knocked over another jewelry store while he was on the pass-lam. But he got his hands on a gun before. In Toronto, it wouldn’t have been hard to do so again.

The mind shudders at the potential public risk.

Sualim’s mind may be schizophrenically broken. But it’s CAMH which has broken a covenant of trust with the city.