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Members of the Burbank Police Department Mental Health Evaluation Team and Command Officers were present last evening at the annual Peace Officers Association of Los Angeles County (POALAC) Awards Dinner.

The POALAC 2013 Centurion Award was presented to Burbank Mental Health Evaluation Team For Outstanding Mental Health Partnership involving Burbank Police Department / Los Angeles Department of Mental Health.

The partnership addresses the mental health issues of those that are affecting quality of life issues for our citizens. In addition, the team works closley with numerous groups within our city to obtain much needed resources for the affected individuals.

Quote From the POALAC Awards Presentation on March 21, 2013:

OUTSTANDING MENTAL HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
Burbank Mental Health Evaluation Team
Burbank Police Department
Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health
The Burbank Police Department (BPD) entered into 2012 facing a daunting 153 percent increase in service calls involving mental health underpinnings. BPD aligned with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (DMH) and created a co-response police/mental health clinician model (Burbank Mental Evaluation Team) to effectively intervene and manage these extraordinary requests for service. Resultant from the implementation of this co-response model, the BPD realized significant benefits to this contemporary model. Specifically, the many chronic offenders who have burdened various public and social services have been the focal point of a strategic intervention plan that included the pursuit of sustained care in lieu of transitory care. With effective collaboration with the City Attorney, DMH, patient families, and a preemptive intervention approach to managing these high-risk interventions, the results have exceeded the Department and community’s expectation.

For information on all of the 2013 POALAC Award Recipients , please see the link below:

http://t.co/kyFcDe7vID

Sergeant Darin Ryburn, Burbank Police Department