WSU criminal justice and criminology graduate and doctoral students are partnering up with the Pullman Police Department to devise a mental health field response program. Pullman Police Chief Gary Jenkins said the intended outcome is to combine law enforcement officers with mental health professionals to better resolve mental health calls. “We want to be able to work together and provide that mental health component much earlier in the intervention,” Jenkins said. David Makin, WSU associate professor of criminal justice and criminology, said he approached Jenkins at the Reimagining Public Safety in Pullman Virtual Summit last year to discuss potential research project ideas for his students.