So what we ve done is put these officers in this situation with mental health screeners. the feedback i am getting it is great. we jumped on to this program about two months ago after the elizabeth police department and the linden police department locally by where we are. it s been great. and what doing, is an added bonus, there is a component where we in our department do followups. so our officers are riding around with a mental health screener for the eight-hour tour. if there is an instance where there wasn t a mental health call, our officers are being proactive and finding the people who had previous calls and they are checking in on them, which is unorthodox. it hasn t happened, but it s been very, very positive results. those people who felt like they were out on an island have someone from a law enforcement perspective as well as a mental health perspective actually coming in to check on them and letting them know they are not alone. the buy-in on that from the patients has b
Officer and the effort is to try to get resources as quickly as possible to those in need. we in law enforcement have recognized there is a need for officers to not wear as many hats as they are currently wearing. as police officers, we to multifunctions, whether it be screen mental health circumstances, play referee in some domestic violence instances, all sorts of things we are is asked to do, and it s an overtask. so in law enforcement we recognize that there is a need to try to get the resources to the people quicker. this is how this is implemented. and chief, what effect has the program had on your department? how have officers responded? we have two officers, two community police officers that i assigned to the unit. they were excited to get onboard. it s a positive thing. in law enforcement today, we have to take different angles and different ways of looking at circumstances. quite frankly, the way it s going hasn t been working to its utmost peak.
New jersey that aims to help law enforcement de-escalate conflicts arming them with added personnel to help. soon plain clothed officers in nearly half of the counties handling emergencies involving people in emotional distress will be paired up with mental health workers. it s called arrive together, a model that could im improve trust between police and the community. here to discuss is police chief daniel mccaffrey. ch chief. your department started implementing this plan. help us understand how it works. good morning. thank you for having me. so in accordance with the attorney general of new jersey, they indonesia kwlat add pilot program called arrive. it actually had began with the new jersey state police in southern new jersey. what happens is they partner a mental health screener, mental health evaluator with a police
Every school in the Linden Community Schools district now has police coverage with the hiring of a school resource officer to provide a police presence at Hyatt Elementary and Linden