Cindy Stewart, Police Intervention in Mental Health Crisis: A Case Study of the Bloomington Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Program, Ph.D Thesis, Department of Criminal Justice Indiana University, 2009.Stewart, C. (2009). Police intervention in mental health crisis: A case study of the ...
In Chicago, a coalition of community organizers is trying to take the national movement toward non-police crisis response systems a step further by refusing to take crises for granted. If it succeeds, it will, in the process, provide a new foundation for both community mental health an...
The Pleasanton City Council will again consider embedding a mental health crisis response team into the Police Department's newly created Alternative Response Unit, to reduce uniformed officers' response to mental health incidents and the unhoused. PLEASANTON, Calif. - After deciding last week to pus...
GREENFIELD, Ind.–A Greenfield man had a mental health crisis Thursday morning, but police say he’s now getting the help he needs. The Greenfield Police Department was called and told that the man was sitting on the ledge of an overpass at around 9:15. At first, he refused to come do...
mental health crisiscommunicationapproach stylede-escalationThis paper considers the application of principles widely used to conceptualise and address violent and aggressive behaviour in psychiatric settings and examines if and to what extent they may be applicable to the police resolution of community-...
Law enforcement haveoften been the go-tofor 911 dispatchers responding to suicide attempts. Advocacy groups have called for more jurisdictions to fund"mobile crisis teams"that can respond to suicide attempts with medics and behavioral health professionals, instead of police. ...
Policepersons with mental illnessCrisis Intervention TeamsDuring the past four decades, fundamental changes in mental health and law enforcement policies have brought criminal justice professionals into increasing contact with people with serious mental illness (PSMI). This contact occurs at every stage of...
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Background The Northern Police and Clinician Emergency Response (NPACER), a combined police and clinician second response team, was created to divert people in mental health crisis away from the hospital emergency department (ED) to care in the community or direct admission to acute inpatient servi...
Mental health is recognised as a part of the 'core business of policing' (Adebowale, 2013; Butler, 2014). Changes in community mental health services mean that the police constitute the 'first emergency service' for people experiencing a mental health crisis (Lamb et al, 2002). The nature ...