The Millcreek Township Police Department is using a nearly $250,000 grant it received from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency to employ a full-time crisis clinician to respond to mental health calls and others and to train some of its officers as peer counselors for other member departments.

Millcreek Police add crisis clinician to assist with mental health appeals

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The Millcreek Township Police Department responds to a “significant number” of mental health incidents and other crises each year, Police Chief Scott Heidt said. The department’s 66 officers also regularly respond to calls that may affect their own mental health. “We’re exposed to a lot of things the average person wouldn’t believe,” Deputy Chief Carter …

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