Mental health professionals to join sheriff’s deputies on some calls

By , Daily Memphian Updated: April 11, 2022 5:52 PM CT | Published: April 11, 2022 5:52 PM CT

The pairing is among the police reforms discussed nationally in the wake of the March 2020 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis Police custody.

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Shelby County Commission Lee Harris Floyd Bonner Crisis Intervention Team Shelby County Sheriff's Office Mental health

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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.


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