Citation

Cesnik BI, Pierce N, Puls M. Suicide Life Threat. Behav. 1977; 7(4): 211-215.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1977, American Association of Suicidology, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

613510

Abstract

Law-enforcement officers tend to look at traditional mental health services as being of little help to them in dealing with persons they encounter experiencing emotional emergencies. They are frequently skeptical that emergency mental health programs offer more than they deliver. Because of their traditional base as the primary, and frequently only, available emergency "field" service in a community, a mental health emergency program must have a cooperative working relationship with law enforcement to serve a community successfully. This paper describes the development and maintenance of such a relationship, designed to increase the police case-finding potential.