Dearborn police hire social worker to deal with huge increase in mental health cases - sadaalwatan

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Dearborn police hire social worker to deal with huge increase in mental health cases - sadaalwatan

Dearborn — After receiving more than 1,600 calls related to mental and behavioral health in 2022, the Dearborn police have recently started hiring mental health specialists to improve their ability to respond to this type of steadily increasing incident at the local and national levels. Dearborn Police Chief Issa Shaheen stressed that the statistics witnessed in the city over the past year were not outside the national context, as the year 2022 …