In its first year, the city of Columbus' 911 Right Response Unit program took 1,300 calls, a third of which didn't require any police response.
While members of an activist group seek radical changes to Columbus police response to mental health crises to limit potentially deadline outcomes, the city of Columbus announced Monday that it is expanding a pilot 911 response unit program begun a year ago.
The unit consists of a dispatcher, a Columbus Public Health social worker and a city Division of Fire paramedic who are embedded in the 911 dispatch call center to review and screen calls that might be suitable for a response that excludes police. In its first year, the Right Response Unit took 1,300 calls, a third of which didn't require any police response, said Marian Stuckey, founder of the Columbus CARE Coalition and the response unit's coordinator.
The city also had a Mobile Crisis Response Unit which pairs a police officer trained in crisis intervention with mental health and substance abuse clinicians. The program had clinicians and officers on the street together for about 18 hours a day, seven days a week, and responded to about 6,000 calls. But the agreement with the company providing clinicians ended in 2021.
Ginther, who is the son of a social worker, said that deciding when a a mental health crisis might turn violent is not easy.
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