Corbin Police Department may soon have a new face in the office who won’t be carrying a gun.
Whitley County Health Department Public Health Director Marcy Rein presented the plan for a pilot program, which would place a behavioral health clinician inside the Corbin Police Department, to the Corbin City Commission on Jan. 19.
As part of the pilot program, the clinician would be available to provide both formal and informal training to police staff and other city staff and assist in offering consultations to officers on call or during encounters.
“We want to give them [officers] more tools to use and we want to take the pressure off of law enforcement in dealing with everything that comes their way,” said Rein.