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Tamworth Select Board backs recruiting social worker embedded in police department
Summary
Select Board members endorsed a plan to recruit a social worker to be embedded in the police department to handle mental-health and social-service calls, with staffing funded from an existing police full-time line item; board members asked staff to post a job description and begin outreach.
The Tamworth Select Board on June 24 discussed a proposal to hire a social worker embedded in the police department to respond to calls that are rooted in mental-health, substance-use or social-service needs rather than criminal conduct. The board agreed the town’s limited police staffing and local gaps in social services make the role potentially useful and directed staff to post a job description and begin recruitment using money already budgeted under the police department’s full‑time line.
The proposal was introduced by Select Board member Leanne, who said she and Chief Keith Littlefield had researched models in other New Hampshire municipalities — Dover and Concord were cited — where police social work…
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