Are OC's Cops Minding the Community?

But one of them is a cop. Officer Negron is a "patrol dog" and describes himself 16 years veteran of the Police Department Garden Grove assigned to the mental health team. Hoang, whose Negron calls "his partner without a gun," is a mental health clinician who works for the Agency Orange County Health Care (HCA). Look Hoang interact with the mentally ill has taught him many things, Negron said.

As the county bubbles into the death of Thomas Kelly, a passenger 37 years with schizophrenia who was beaten by cops Fullerton and died later, many wonder if the police are doing enough to train agents to work with the mentally ill.

Collaboration in Garden Grove seems to work, think and Negron each department in the county would benefit greatly from the same ability to "cut the red tape and get the person what they need," he said. Clinicians can get people in hospitals much more easily than can the cops he says.

But the vast majority of departments do not receive the benefit of one-on-one with someone like Hoang. In Orange County, only Garden Grove, Westminster, Orange and the southern region, the County Sheriff, which patrols the unincorporated areas, these partnerships with clinicians, said Annette Mugrditchian, Division Director for the HCA adult mental health services.

In some cases, says Mugrditchian, HCA reached out to agencies to form such partnerships, what happened in Anaheim, in other cases, departments have asked for a clinician HCA.If more agencies make such requests, Mugrditchian said: "We would certainly sit down and meet them."

All law enforcement agencies have access to centralized assessment team (CAT), which is where Hoang works when not on horseback with Negron. Agents can call ATC to talk to a clinician, Mugrditchian said, or set down persons to one of five clinics in the county. The clinics close at night, but triage of emergency in Santa Ana is still open, she said.

Other agencies do what they can with their own resources.Sergeant Bob Dunn of the Police Department of Anaheim argues that, apart from officer training at the academy received, they try to keep up to date with mental health problems by sending newsletters via e- electronics, but it recognizes each officer to decide whether to read them. Recently, he said, the department sent officers to the two-day classes on how to interact with the mentally ill. He added that about 10 officers attended the Anaheim course so far.

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