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Hampden police announce co-response clinician MOU, recruitment platform contract and concerns about dispatch costs
Summary
The police chief described a CHD-funded co-response clinician arrangement to assist with mental-health calls, won conditional board approval pending final administrative review, and the board approved a no-cost three-year Police App hiring contract; members also discussed upcoming dispatch-renewal costs and AED maintenance.
The Select Board received an update from the police chief (introduced at the meeting by the board) about community outreach, crisis response and personnel tools.
The chief said the department completed a toy drive and prioritized town families, then discussed a memorandum of understanding with an adjacent police department and the Center for Human Development (CHD) to provide a co-response clinician. "This coresponse person is someone who is going to be available to respond for people in scribe mental health crisis," the chief said, adding that the position is funded…
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