Mental Health Conditions
Responding to individuals who are affected by mental illness or are in crisis is an increasing challenge and important issue in policing. The IACP is committed to helping the law enforcement field in implementing effective police responses to individuals in mental health crisis which ensure public and officer safety.
One Mind Campaign
Enhancing Law Enforcement Engagement with Individuals with Mental Health Conditions
Officer Response To Mental Illness
Improving Officer Response to Persons with Mental Illness and Other Disabilities
Policy Center Resources
See AllCritical Incident Stress Management
This topic has been combined with the Employee Mental Health and Wellness policy.
Please contact the Policy Center with any questions.
Acute Behavioral Emergency
Police agencies should develop a cooperative response protocol shared by the agency, the emergency call center, emergency medical services, and hospital emergency department staff. The coordinated activities...
Responding to Persons Experiencing a Mental Health Crisis
Responding to situations involving individuals reasonably believed to be persons in crisis (PIC) necessitates an officer to make difficult judgments about the mental state and...
Post-Shooting Personnel Support
Law enforcement duties can expose officers to mentally painful and highly stressful situations that cannot be resolved through normal stress coping mechanisms. Unless adequately treated...
Resources
Rethinking Crisis Response
This brief discusses how police-led multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) can improve the effectiveness of care and reduce officer strain, but they also require structure and collaboration
...Stress, Burnout, and Police Officer Retention
This brief discusses how officer turnover continues to rise but is driven less by trauma exposure and more by organizational and operational stressors. Agencies can
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Fact Sheet/Brief/Resource/Tool
Law Enforcement Resources on Autism Spectrum Disorder
Fact Sheet/Brief/Resource/Tool
