News

10/04/2024 - Department of Justice Releases Report on Police-Media Interactions During Mass Demonstrations

10/02/2024 - E-Newsletter: Community Policing Dispatch - October Issue

09/27/2024 - Justice Department Announces an Organizational Assessment of the Hackensack, New Jersey, Police Department under the COPS Office’s Collaborative Reform Initiative

09/18/2024 - Justice Department Expands Tribal Access Program to Improve the Exchange of Critical Data with Federally Recognized Tribes

PODCAST SERIES: THE BEAT

Behavioral Health and Law Enforcement Partnerships

In this month’s episode of The Beat, Jessica Murphy, an Emergency Services Deputy Division Director at Johnson County Mental Health Center, and Sergeant Robert McKeirnan of the Olathe, Kansas Police Department, present the key to successful co-response models which is solid organizational partnerships between police departments and municipal mental health and behavioral health departments.