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The Memphis Police Department joined in partnership with the Memphis Chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), mental health providers, and two universities (University of Memphis and University of Tennessee) in organizing, training, and implementing a specialized unit. This new alliance was established to develop a more ...
The Memphis City Council Tuesday evening unanimously passed a resolution expanding the scope of police officers who can receive mental health care after a critical incident.. The policy, which ...
While a victim's well-being is taken seriously, the same cannot always be said about a responding police officer, whose own trauma can often go unaddressed.
HONOLULU (KHON2) — Experts said one in four people suffer from a mental health condition, substance abuse or anxiety. When police are called, officers might not always know the best way to ...
On August 6, 2019, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal announced creation of the first U.S. statewide program to support the mental health of police officers. The goal of the program would be to train officers in emotional resiliency and to help destigmatize mental health issues.
The Mental Evaluation Unit (MEU), including the Systemwide Mental Assessment Response Team (SMART), is the police crisis intervention team of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), working with people suspected of having a mental illness. [1] The MEU seeks to de-escalate situations where mentally-ill suspects are believed be involved. [2]
The report, from the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, also found that Oklahoma City, the state's largest city, defaults to sending police officers to deal with mental health crises even ...
After years of calls for reform, the Miami-Dade Police Department is set to make a landmark change in how it deals with many cases involving the mentally ill. Instead of dispatching just officers ...