Los Angeles County Sheriff Beefs Up Mental Health Evaluation Teams [nbclosangeles.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 9/20/198:30 AM

By Lolita Lopez, NBC Los Angeles, September 9, 2019

More than a dozen more Los Angeles County Sheriff Department Mental Evaluation teams, or MET teams, hit the streets of the county this week.

MET teams, which partner a Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health clinician with a sheriff's deputy, are requested by other deputies or other law enforcement who arrive at a scene and find a person dealing with a mental health crisis.

The department says these types of calls that have resulted in "involuntary holds" by the LASD, where patients are considered a danger to themselves or others, have increased 72% over the last three years.

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