Police should not be involved in mental health incidents, Australian report says
Presence of officers can increase distress, according to a study in which people with lived experience suggest they could be talked down
Or really any other incidents
Here is my solution. If you want to be a police officer, you need to learn and pass multiple subjects, including and not limted to medicine training, laws, psychology and any other topic that impact the day to day operations. This will help massively in improving the quality of police officers and the overall impact on society by filtering out the problmatic one.
They actually are trained in psychology and emergency health, in Australia. There was a task force built in 08, and it's since been rolled out, so every officer has mhit (mental health intervention training). Not that I don't agree that police shouldn't be involved, even if trained, because regardless, it's too terrifying for someone having a mental health breakdown.
I'd rather have specialization. Different crisis response teams for different crises. A college degree is prooobably a good requimrent for all police.
If aiming public protection need to be qualified in psychology, social or medical carrying, why still use cops ? Qualification is a thing, but it is not anything. People are structured by their workplace. Even someone with a Phd in Psychology joining the police wouldn't be a "good cops". He will still have guns, the right to use violence, colonial procedure, and most importantly : we would have chosen to join the cops with the mission to enforce "peace keeping" by force, even if it's imply starvation, homelessness our unemployment.
