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Indianapolis north district emphasizes clinician-led crisis response and 911 triage
Summary
IPD North District and city partners highlighted a clinician-led community response team and the mobile crisis assistance team (MCAT) as non‑law‑enforcement options for certain mental‑health crises; dispatch protocols and when to call 911 were explained to neighborhood attendees.
Officer Joe Hoxha of Indianapolis Police Department’s North District described a clinician‑led community response team operating alongside IPD dispatchers to respond to certain mental‑health crises without an immediate law‑enforcement presence.
"The clinician‑led community response team is a non law enforcement response to a mental health crisis," Officer Hoxha said, explaining that clinicians from Stepping Stones Therapy Center…
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