Oh boy....I hate to see stories like this...

[Sweet spot]

You may want to check your facts. My husband was a Police Officer in Worcester during the 70’s and 80’s. There was no special training at that time to deal with mental illness. In addition, 2023 is vastly different on so many levels.

People need to wait and see the facts before passing judgment on this difficult situation for the family and for the Gilford Police Department,

[ITD]

Originally Posted by Sweet spot

You may want to check your facts. My husband was a Police Officer in Worcester during the 70’s and 80’s. There was no special training at that time to deal with mental illness. In addition, 2023 is vastly different on so many levels.

People need to wait and see the facts before passing judgment on this difficult situation for the family and for the Gilford Police Department,

First of all, I'm not passing judgement I really hope this wasn't a police mistake, second I'm not sure of the exact dates, it may have been the late 80s or early 90s, but there was supposedly funding for it and it supposedly happened. {snipped}


Edit: Found it, attached is Worcester, MA policy on the Mentally ill and how they are dealt with. The first revision was March of 1992, the official policy, these things are not generated overnight, I'm pretty sure this was all being at least discussed in the early to mid 80s and supposedly practices implemented about the same time. That's what I remember.

https://www.worcesterma.gov/wpd-poli...procedures.pdf