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Police and fire co‑response teams expand crisis work; APD HOPE and MIT report hundreds of contacts
Summary
Anchorage Police and Fire Department officials described expanded co‑response teams at a homelessness summit, including the HOPE team, Mobile Intervention Teams and a mobile crisis team that the municipality is expanding to 24/7 coverage.
Anchorage public‑safety leaders told a homelessness summit that the city’s co‑response and mobile crisis teams are handling thousands of contacts and that officials are expanding hours and clinical staffing.
Lieutenant Brian Fuchs of the Anchorage Police Department said the department’s HOPE co‑response team and related outreach units have engaged hundreds of people living in camps and that the unit’s street‑level work has led to housing placements and treatment enrollments.
"They've had 950 contacts with campers," Fuchs said about the six‑month period since the current HOPE configuration was created, and he reported that outreach work helped place people…
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