Community Assistance Liaison (CAL) team members will respond to the following issues instead of police officers:
- Disorderly intoxication
- Drug overdose
- Intoxicated person
- Mental health crisis
- Suicide crisis
- Mental Health Transport
- Disorderly juvenile/truancy
- Disorderly Juvenile at Elementary Schools
- Panhandling
- Homeless complaints
- Neighborhood dispute
Here are the immediate problems:
- Not every 911 call starts violent – but many of them end that way.
- When this hits its untlimate end — needing the cops to respond to these kinds of calls — the money that was transferred to CAL will not be transferred back to the police.
Police In Florida Town Will No Longer Respond To ‘Non-Violent’ 911 Calls
Police in St. Petersburg, Florida announced Thursday they will no longer send an officer for non-violent 911 calls. Instead, the St. Petersburg Police Department (SPPD) said they would be creating a new division within the department – the Community Assistance Liaison (CAL).