On April 30, 2021, the Crisis Centre of B.C. published their “Police Act Reform Submission,” a reflection on what reforms to the Police Act could support a “least restrictive, lowest cost” approach to responding to mental health crises in British Columbia.
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Recommendation 3: Currently “Specialized Service Agreements” under Part 2, Section 4(3) are focused on criminal investigation services, traffic enforcement services, police communication services, and forensic services. If the Ministry wished to ensure behavioral health and crisis response supports were coordinated with policing within designated service areas, this section could be amended to include such supports, with regulations in place to limit the role of police officers in mental health response while providing access to alternative service agreements to support coordinated, community-based crisis response.-
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