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Livonia Police Chief Curtis Caid is optimistic of what embedding two social workers into the department would mean. I am confident this is going to be a great program for our community, he said. I think this will also be a program others will seek out for their community.
Caid says he s been working to add mental health and crisis experts to the Livonia Police Department, a program now proposed through a partnership with Hegira Health, for years and he hopes to see that idea come to fruition. The social workers would co-respond with officers to crisis situations, respond alone in secure situations and follow-up with those who need it.
Chief Caid and the mayor have been working for a year with Hegira Health in Livonia. City officials are looking to hire social workers trained in behavioral health to become embedded with the police force.
Marcus Alcala (Livonia Police Department)
LIVONIA, Mich. – Police are searching for a 56-year-old man named Marcus Alcala who went missing after leaving his home in the 32206 block of West Chicago in Livonia.
Alcala was last seen wearing a dark gray hoodie and blue jeans when he left the home at 10 a.m. Monday on foot.
Anyone with information is asked to call police.
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Mother of D’Wan Sims dies without answers in son’s 1994 disappearance
D’Wan Sims went missing Dec. 11, 1994
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LIVONIA, Mich. – Local 4 has been following the disappearance of D’Wan Sims for nearly 26 years.
After years of tips, clues and dead ends, his mother, Dwanna Wiggins moved to North Carolina, where she passed away Monday. Police claim she died from a heart attack.
“We actually got the call this morning Ms. Sims had passed away” said Captain Ron Taig with Livonia Police.
Taig said he’s had numerous conversations with Dwanna Wiggins over the years. It’s the case he will never forget and still hoping they will solve. Taig said the death of Dwanna will make things more difficult to do that, but the case is not over.