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Police co-response to mental health calls doesn’t reduce arrests or improve treatment for people in crisis

SUBSCRIBE 6th November 2024Sarah Gibbons, Contributing Editor, Policing Insight
While law enforcement agencies around the world look at co-responder models and health partnerships to answer the growing demands of those in mental health crisis, new research from the US suggests that teaming up mental health clinicians with police officers to respond to behavioural health-related calls has no better outcome in terms of reducing arrests or improving treatment engagement than simply sending a uniformed officer, as Policing Insight’s Sarah Gibbons reports.

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