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Fire station tour and police co‑responder program highlighted as calls for mental‑health response rise
Summary
City staff led a tour of the new Fire Station 3 and the Lee's Summit Police Department described its co‑responder program, which pairs licensed behavioral‑health professionals with officers on mental‑health calls. Police cited a rise in mental‑health related calls from 722 in 2020 to 1,479 in 2022 and urged callers to request a corresponder when
Lee's Summit public‑safety leaders used the council meeting to showcase a new fire station and to explain the city’s behavioral‑health co‑responder program that teams licensed mental‑health professionals with police officers responding to crisis calls.
Assistant Chief Jim Eden and Battalion Chief Ben Hicks gave a guided overview of Fire Station 3 — built with 2016 bond proceeds and occupied in 2020 — highlighting living quarters, an on‑site gym, extractor machines for turnout gear, a workshop, the apparatus floor and the station’s ambulance and engine. Station leaders said the…
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