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Police departments in the 194 U.S. cities with a population of 100,000 or more were surveyed in 1996 to identify strategies they used to obtain input from the mental health system about dealing with mentally ill persons. A total of 174 departments responded (90 percent). Ninety-six departments had no specialized response for dealing with mentally ill persons. Among the 78 departments with special programs, three basic strategies were found: a police-based specialized police response, a police-based specialized mental health response, and a mental-health-based specialized mental health response. At least two-thirds of all departments, even those with no specialized response program, rated themselves as moderately or very effective in dealing with mentally ill persons in crisis.
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Martha Williams Deane
Henry J. Steadman
Randy Borum
Psychiatric Services
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Duke Medical Center
Policy Research Associates
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www.synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0d6c9e68ddba849a09bc67 — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.1.99