TABLE 3. Practical Feedback
| Law Enforcement Agency Feedback |
Feedback to Be Used in Collaboration with Community Agencies and Professionals |
|
1. Training
a. Increased training for all officers regarding mental illness, homelessness, dangerousness, and appropriate responses
Possible use of procedural justice as training framework
b. Intensive and continual training for specialized response teams |
1. Referral agencies (hospitals, CMHC)
a. Create a no-refusal policy
b. Offer 24-h service
c. Provide training for receiving personnel regarding type of police referrals, including police perspectives and culture education |
2. Specialize community policing
a. Separate crisis intervention from umbrella of community policing
b. Collaborate with local community agencies, hospitals, and professionals
c. Model type suggested: police-based specialized police response |
2. Community/social justice system
a. Educate about the conflicting roles of police officers regarding this issue.
b. Create policy to support police-based specialized police response teams and community programs that work with the police agencies |
|
