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Law Enforcement and Crisis Intervention Services: A Critical Relationship
Author(s) -
Cesnik Bernard I.,
Pierce Nancy,
Puls Michael
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
suicide and life‐threatening behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.544
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1943-278X
pISSN - 0363-0234
DOI - 10.1111/j.1943-278x.1977.tb00892.x
Subject(s) - law enforcement , crisis intervention , mental health , intervention (counseling) , enforcement , service (business) , suicide prevention , public relations , poison control , psychology , medicine , nursing , medical emergency , business , law , political science , psychiatry , marketing
Law‐enforcement officers tend to look at traditional mental health services as being of little help to them in dealing with persons they encounter experiencing emotional emergencies. They are frequently skeptical that emergency mental health programs offer more than they deliver. Because of their traditional base as the primary, and frequently only, available emergency “field” service in a community, a mental health emergency program must have a cooperative working relationship with law enforcement to serve a community successfully. This paper describes the development and maintenance of such a relationship, designed to increase the police case‐finding potential.