Columbia Police Department considers co-responder program for crisis calls

Columbia Police Department considers co-responder program for crisis calls

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Department is working to launch a 911 co-responder program that will pair mental health professionals with officers on calls involving people in behavioral crisis. Days after police safely detained a man who was in a standoff with law enforcement at Stephens Lake Park, who aimed to be killed by police, CPD Chief Jill Schlude detailed what the department is doing. "Fire Chief Brian Schaeffer, Rebecca Roess…