The Los Angeles Police Department’s mental evaluation unit is the largest mental health policing program of its kind in the nation, with 61 sworn officers and 28 mental health workers from the county.
The unit has become a vital resource for the 10,000-person police force in Los Angeles.
Officer Ted Simola and his colleagues in the unit work with county mental health employees to provide crisis intervention when people with mental illnesses come into contact with police.
[For more of this story, written by Stephanie O'Neill, go to http://khn.org/news/la-police-...nstead-of-jail-time/]
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