MARIETTA – More than a dozen law enforcement officers from five local agencies are now better prepared to recognize mental illness and respond to calls involving citizens with mental health issues.

Eleven law enforcement officers from nine different departments recently completed the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training, sponsored by the Four County ADAMhs Board and NAMI Four County.

PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) -Law enforcement agencies across the Pine Belt learned how to serve and protect those during a critical time. Friday, 16 law enforcement members graduated from the week-long ...

A group of five Albany County Sheriff’s Office deputies graduated this week from Crisis Intervention Team training. The 40-hour training is meant to better equip officers to respond to a variety of ...

Aurora police officers used special training and teamwork to help defuse a mental health crisis situation Wednesday after someone threatened to commit suicide in the parking lot of a shopping area.

Cook County Sheriff’s Officer Miriam Bernal starts each patrol shift knowing she may have to call upon her Crisis Intervention Team training while responding to calls in the far south suburbs. Bernal ...

"As soon as we realized Jeremy was gone, and the minivan was gone, we put two and two together and Amy called the police." On that 911 call, made October 10, 2010, Amy Hutton told dispatchers, “I have ...

Treatment instead of incarceration is one of the goals of the training provided to 13 area law enforcement officers who recently participated in the third class of the East Tennessee Crisis ...