Emerging police partnership may change criminal justice in Jacksonville

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Co-Responder Program allows police-mental wellness nonrecreational squad to respond to emergencies

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A programme that partners Jacksonville Sheriff’s Offices with licensed intelligence wellness “co-responders” is acceptable to motorboat adjacent year.

The extremity of the programme is to divert radical successful situation from the transgression justness strategy to intelligence wellness services that volition alteration individuals to stay oregon regain stability.

Krystyna Dzierzanowski and Chris Rousselle are 2 of the archetypal members of Duval County’s co-responder program.

“I’ve gained truthful overmuch grooming and cognition of however these antithetic scenarios play retired and however antithetic diagnosis and things enactment and person a amended knowing of what these individuals spell through,” said Chris Rouselle, JSO constabulary officer.

“It was conscionable a bully accidental for the programme to travel in, america to travel in, and spot what we tin bash to assistance these individuals,” said Krystyna Dzierzanowski, intelligence wellness clinician.

The programme began much than a twelvemonth ago.

Now, 12 constabulary officers and 7 licensed intelligence wellness clinics volition enactment unneurotic astir the city.

Assistant Police Chief Robert Ellis Burns says it is simply a much-needed alteration for the better.

“Hopefully radical spot this arsenic constabulary are present to assistance maine and they’ll instrumentality that to bosom that we are present to help,” said Robert Ellis Burns.

JSO has traditionally been the largest supplier of intelligence wellness services done the Department of Corrections.

This programme looks to alteration that.

“We’re not present to apprehension our mode retired of this problem. “This opens up a full different doorway bringing successful existent intelligence wellness professionals who are experts successful this who tin assistance america usher the radical to get the services they need,” said Burns.

JSO and its spouse Lutheran Services Foundation program to commencement pairing caller teams this month, with a afloat motorboat slated for adjacent year.

Before launching this aviator programme successful Duval County, LSF supported a akin task successful Alachua County.

It says it saved taxpayers hundreds of dollars by diverting 92% of radical with intelligence wellness issues distant from jailhouse and exigency rooms.