The program is part of a three-pronged approach that also includes the city’s Mobile Crisis Assistance Team led by IMPD and the Assessment and Intervention Center.
Four clinician-led teams will be available to respond to mental health crises in the downtown district of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department as early as July.
It has been a year since Gladys and Herman Whitfield Jr. called the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department because their son was having an apparent mental health episode. But it was a call that ended in tragedy.