COLUMBIA — Over the next few months, the Columbia Police Department will implement a new training and community relations program to improve police interactions with people with mental illness, a group that poses significant challenges to officers and the criminal justice system.
Program aims to improve police interactions with people with mental illness
Thursday, November 13, 2008 | 10:07 p.m. CST;
updated 10:51 a.m. CDT, Sunday, July 26, 2009
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