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Author(s): Maritt Kirst, Renira Narrandes, Kate Francombe Pridham, Janani Yogalingam, Flora Matheson, Vicky Stergiopoulos
Organization: Centre for Research on Inner City Health, St. Michael’s Hospital
Publication Date: 2014
In Toronto, police officers are often called to respond to mental health crises. To begin to address this issue, Toronto hospitals and Toronto Police Services developed ‘Mobile Crisis Intervention Teams’ (MCITs), each of which has one psychiatric nurse and one police officer with specialized training. There are currently six MCITs working out of hospitals in Toronto.
MCITs are generally dispatched at the request of ‘primary response units’ (PRUs)...