Police departments across the nation have implemented mental health intervention programs to train officers in handling calls involving individuals who are experiencing mental health crises. Although these programs seem to be a plausible strategy to reverse the flow of persons with mental illness into ...
If nothing else, Scott pushes every officer in his department to take an eight-hour Mental Health First Aid class, which can be done virtually, or at the local hospital. The need to respond to mental health calls “isn’t going away any time soon,” he says. Laurence Miller, the polic...
Other local hospitals who have had an influx of injured patients have said that the injuries they are dealing with are consistent with a knife attack that was aiming specifically for the necks of the victims and bore signs the attacker had the intention to kill. Police were first alerted to ...
Sheehan said via email. The state has updated protocols to require doctor permission for all sedation of patients with combative behavior, which wasn’t required at the time, although responding paramedics did get a doctor’s permission, she wrote. A directive on dealing with peop...
This weekly summary curates the key policing-related research that’s been published online each week, with links to the original journal articles, and selected abstracts – plus a short guide outlining how serving police officers and staff can get access, free, to many of the articles listed ...
HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, is 27 years old. For better or worse, it was designed to protect patients. But in reality, it has also hampered attorneys in their quest for medical records critical to ensuring fair compensation for injured wor...
Pro 3: Police body cameras are a good police reform tool and have strong support from members of the public.Read More.Con 3: Police body cameras decrease the safety of police officers and negatively affect their physical and mental health.Read More. ...
This is problematic as mental health patients “present a unique challenge for triage” and there is only a vague understanding of how to prioritize physical injuries and mental health cases in relation to each other [53] (p. 229). This challenge contributes to confusion with respect to how ...
Ontake eruption. These tasks require special skills, and we thus also speculate that these police staff had disaster preparedness from daily training. Another study indicated that non-traditional responders were twice as likely to develop PTSD compared to police dealing with the same disaster [35]....
fewer of them so equipped when such situations arise so trained personnel can defuse the situation. Mental Health and Social workers must be funded to deal with the same situations they faced in the old mental institutions. The difference would be dealing with outpatients instead of in-patients....