[ti:Video Calls Help Officers Deal with Mental Health Crises]
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[00:00.04]Americans have been calling on police
[00:03.64]to change how they deal with citizens in crises,
[00:08.80]especially those with mental health problems.
[00:14.44]Police are usually the first to arrive at a serious incident
[00:20.64]and are trained to deal with crime and violent behavior.
[00:27.24]But a law enforcement agency in the central state of Illinois
[00:33.68]has found a new way to deal with mental health cases.
[00:40.16]It is using video calls to calm difficult situations.
[00:47.36]Restrictions ordered to stop the spread of the new coronavirus
[00:53.56]have left many people alone in their homes without support.
[01:00.28]Many people are unable to find mental health services
[01:06.44]or unwilling to go out and risk getting COVID-19.
[01:13.40]The Cook County sheriff's office has faced many emergency
[01:18.84]calls about suicide or other mental health crises recently.
[01:26.16]Sheriff Tom Dart leads the Cook County sheriff's office.
[01:32.76]In the United States, a sheriff is a law enforcement officer
[01:39.00]who serves parts of a state that are not part of a city or town.
[01:46.64]Emergency calls to Dart's office involving mental health problems
[01:53.24]have increased by 60 percent this year.
[01:57.44]Dart said police officers are being asked more and more
[02:03.96]to arrive first to mental health cases.
[02:08.88]He said officers are being asked to do things
[02:13.08]they are not trained for or for which they have little training.
[02:19.64]Dart said some programs have mental health professionals
[02:25.04]riding in a vehicle with law enforcement officers.
[02:31.32]That works for smaller communities.
[02:35.16]But Cook County, which includes the city of Chicago, is very big.
[02:42.72]Dart asked, "How many ambulances would we have to buy
[02:48.20]and how many would we have to hire to man them all?"
[02:53.88]"We wanted a tool for the officers
[02:57.16]to get that mental health expert on the scene immediately,"
[03:02.40]said Elli Petaque-Montgomery, a team director.
[03:08.56]So far, the department has 70 personal electronic devices.
[03:16.08]They are used to make video calls.
[03:19.60]The department bought 35 with aid money when the program began.
[03:27.40]It bought 35 more when it became clear the number of calls,
[03:33.56]which is now past 50, would increase.
[03:38.88]Sometimes a lack of wireless service or another reason
[03:44.48]has not permitted a video call.
[03:48.68]The department said this has happened 20 times.
[03:54.16]In those cases, officers set up a telephone call
[03:59.20]between the person in crisis and a mental health professional.
[04:05.80]Four mental health experts
[04:08.44]have been joined by four more to answer calls.
[04:13.28]Dart said the cost of the experts and the devices
[04:18.32]is much less than what it would cost
[04:22.12]to send out many mental health professionals with police.
[04:28.16]But, such a program cannot work
[04:31.36]unless police officers are ready to accept it.
[04:36.48]Bonnie Busching is an officer with the sheriff's office.
[04:42.28]She answered a call in which a man
[04:45.44]was striking his head on the ground to harm himself.
[04:50.56]When the man began threatening to use a knife,
[04:54.88]Busching sent an officer to bring the device for a video call.
[05:01.76]She watched the man immediately calm down
[05:05.44]when he began talking to the woman on the other end.
[05:11.56]"People spend a lot of time on electronic devices,
[05:17.64]they're comfortable with them
[05:20.04]and they feel safer talking face to face with a person,"
[05:25.12]said Petaque-Montgomery,
[05:27.60]who was on the other end of the call.
[05:31.88]She said that by handing the man the device,
[05:36.36]Busching showed a level of trust.
[05:40.28]For Busching, questions about the device
[05:44.00]and concerns of what could happen
[05:46.84]if she forcibly restricted the man
[05:50.20]disappeared when the situation ended quietly.
[05:55.96]"He gave me his hand and walked
[05:58.44]to the ambulance with me," she said.
[06:02.08]I'm Gregory Stachel. 更多听力请访问21VOA.COM
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