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Lee’s Summit highlights police co-responder program to handle rising mental-health calls
Summary
City staff described a co-responder program in which licensed mental-health professionals accompany trained officers to crisis calls to provide on-scene assessment, de‑escalation and linkage to services; presenters urged residents to request a co-responder when calling 911.
Lee’s Summit police and co-responder staff told the City Council and the public that the department’s co-responder program pairs specially trained officers with licensed mental-health professionals to respond to an increasing number of behavioral-health calls.
The program exists so mental‑health professionals “can interact with that citizen and get them the help they need right there on that scene,” a presenter said during public comment, adding that co‑responders are…
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