Mental health clinician to respond with area police
The Greenfield Station on High Street in Greenfield. STAFF FILE PHOTO/DAN LITTLE
The Montague Public Safety Complex on Turnpike Road in Turners Falls. Staff File Photo/Paul Franz
Published: 4/13/2021 5:06:07 PM
Three Franklin County police departments have teamed up with Clinical & Support Options (CSO), allowing them to work with a mental health clinician, starting May 12, when they receive calls involving mental health issues.
The nonprofit, which operates licensed behavioral health clinics throughout Western Massachusetts, will provide a master’s-level clinician who will work out of the Greenfield Police Station and be dispatched regionally, not only in Greenfield, but to Montague and Deerfield, too. When called upon, the full-time regional co-response clinician who is yet to be announced will arrive to the scene with an officer to provide expertise in the areas of emotional and mental health and behavioral de-escal
Drones used to search for possible person on ice in Turners Falls
Turners Falls resident Wayne Pleasant reported seeing a person on this stretch of ice on the Connecticut River on Thursday. Police and firefighters conducted a search using drones. Staff Photo/Paul Franz
One of two drones dispatched Thursday to look for a possible person on ice on the Connecticut River in Turners Falls hovers in the air. Staff Photo/Paul Franz
Greenfield Police Sgt. Jason Haskins operates a drone while Turners Falls Fire Chief John Zellmann watches it in flight during a search for a possible person on ice on the Connecticut River in Turners Falls on Thursday. Staff Photo/Paul Franz
Suicidal individual prompts temporary closure of Turners Falls-Gill Bridge
The Turners Falls-Gill Bridge, as seen approaching Turners Falls from Gill in April 2020. The bridge was temporarily closed Thursday afternoon while State Police troopers negotiated with a suicidal individual. Staff File Photo/PAUL FRANZ
Published: 3/11/2021 7:47:49 PM
The Turners Falls-Gill Bridge over the Connecticut River was temporarily closed Thursday afternoon while State Police troopers negotiated with a suicidal person.
At around 3:15 p.m., Turners Falls Fire, as well as Montague and Gill police departments, responded to a report of a “suicidal subject” on the Turners Falls-Gill Bridge, according to Turners Falls Fire Capt. Mike Currie.