Behavioral Health and Law Enforcement Partnerships

The Beat: A COPS Office Podcast

With the prevalence of mental health and behavioral health disorders, it’s important that the law enforcement community connect and collaborate with surrounding community partners, who are also stakeholders, in addressing this concern. In this month’s episode of The Beat, Jessica Murphy, an Emergency Services Deputy Division Director at Johnson County Mental Health Center, and Sergeant Robert McKeirnan of the Olathe, Kansas Police Department, present the key to successful co-response models, which is solid organizational partnerships between police departments and municipal mental health and behavioral health departments.