Two more NJ towns add mental health screeners to police response
On two shifts a week, cops in Elizabeth and Linden will be joined by mental health screeners in responding to 911 calls for behavioral health crises.
Source: nj1015.com
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On two shifts a week, cops in Elizabeth and Linden will be joined by mental health screeners in responding to 911 calls for behavioral health crises.
A program that began in Cumberland Co., pairing a plain clothes state trooper with a certified mental health screener, will expand to Union Co.