The idea is that instead of police responding to calls dealing with mental health crisis and homelessness, now a two-person response team will.
San Rafael police has launched a mobile response program SAFE to help respond to with homelessness and mental illness calls.The SAFE program will provide an alternative response to police to some low-level emergency calls.
"I think that traditionally first responders have been police, fire and medical, and maybe we were missing something there," San Rafael PD Officer Jennifer Gamble told ABC7 News. "And so we're hoping the SAFE team is the fourth tenant of that, and so they can intervene on those types of calls, so the community feels like they are being addressed."Officer Gamble is working as a liaison to integrate SAFE into the police department.
ABC7 News tagged along with Priscilla Ferreira and Juan Hernandez -- two of SAFE's crisis interventionists on Wednesday morning.
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