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1 Denise Paley holds up a photograph of her son, Ellis Tibere, at a virtual public hearing last month. Paley is pushing for more mental health training for police officers a little over a year after Tibere randomly attacked a woman in a Westport parking lot during an apparent mental health crisis. Image capture from CT-N )
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It was the evening of Jan. 5 last year that Denise Paley walked into the Guilford Police Department (GPD) headquarters. Her 18-year-old son, Ellis Tibere, had left the house around noon, ostensibly to meet friends at the library to work on school, but had never arrived, and Paley quickly became worried as he did not respond to phone calls or text messages.
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Sen. Christine Cohen (D-Guilford) will host a screening of a shortened version of McShane s HBO documentary that followed two police officers from the San Antonio, Texas Police Department s mental health unit for three years. (Renee Schiavone/Patch)
GUILFORD, CT Mental health workers aren t cops. And cops aren t mental health workers. But there s a place in the middle. Police can receive mental health training, and the two groups can work together to keep people safe.
It s the basis for the Emmy award-winning documentary, Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops, produced and directed by Guilford filmmaker Jenifer McShane.
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Tuesday, in support of her state Senate bill that calls for a study of how Connecticut police officers are trained in mental health and crisis intervention tactics, Sen. Christine Cohen (D-Guilford) will host a screening of a shortened version of McShane s HBO documentary that followed two police officers from the San Antonio, Texas Police Depart
Mom of Guilford teen charged in stabbing wants crisis intervention training for police
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Guilford s Ellis TibereTyler Sizemore / Hearst Connecticut Media
As a Guilford teen was ruled competent Thursday to face trial on accusations he stabbed a woman in a random attack, his mother appealed to the legislature’s public safety and security committee in support of crisis intervention training for police officers who she believes may have saved her son.
Ellis Tibere’s mother, Denise Paley, told the committee this type of training was crucial as her family struggled to address her son’s mental health crisis ahead of the Westport stabbing on Jan. 6, 2020.
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Ellis Tibere, who had then recently turned 18, was charged last year by Westport police with the stabbing of a woman in a beauty salon parking lot. His family said the random attack was a result of his serious mental illness. (Westport Police Department/Tibere family photo)
GUILFORD, CT A month before then-18-year-old Ellis Tibere was accused of the Jan. 6, 2020, attack of a woman in a Westport beauty salon parking lot, the Guilford High School senior had received his college acceptance and presidential scholarship letters.
Tibere was a high-performing student, a community and synagogue volunteer, and a Unified Sports ambassador, who spent his last two years in high school enrolled in the International Baccalaureate World School Diploma program.
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The Guilford teen who was indicted in Februaryfor a seemingly random knife attack in Westport was arrested again on Monday, Dec. 21 after apparently removing a GPS monitoring bracelet and leaving his home armed with a knife.
Ellis Tibere, a Guilford High School senior at the time of his initial arrest, attacked a woman in a parking lot Westport with a knife in January and was charged with attempted murder. He was released on a $1 million bond in May and placed on house arrest pending a court date.
According to an affidavit, officers responded to Tibere’s home after receiving a call from his parole officer. Police found Tibere with his father a short distance from the home, and found a knife nearby.