Police Interactions with Persons-in-Crisis: Emergency Psychological Services and Jail Diversion

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Author(s): Michael E. Christopher (Honolulu Police Department, USA)and Vincent G. Tsushima (Hawaii Pacific University, USA)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 21
Source title: Police Psychology and Its Growing Impact on Modern Law Enforcement
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Cary L. Mitchell (Pepperdine University, USA)and Edrick H. Dorian (Los Angeles Police Department, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0813-7.ch014

Keywords: Human Behavior & Psychology / Information Science Reference / Psychology / Social Sciences & Humanities

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This chapter addresses the interaction of law enforcement officers and people who are psychologically impaired as a result of mental illness, emotional disturbance, or severe intoxication. The chapter consists of three major sections. Part One provides an overview of the larger legal and social factors that increasingly require law enforcement to develop specialized programmatic responses for responding to a Person-in-Crisis (PIC). Part Two provides an overview of different types of programmatic attempts to address the problems associated with these at-risk populations. Part Three offers recommendations to police psychologists on how to develop programmatic solutions to the challenges faced by law enforcement when dealing with PICs.

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