Law enforcement’s readiness to handle mental health situations has come under scrutiny since October, when a Bowdoin man killed 18 people in Lewiston in the worst mass shooting in Maine history, and the disclosure that the Sagadahoc County sheriff’s.
With a shortage of mental health professionals, Maine police officers are forced to make decisions during mental heakth crises without proper training.
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