2015 Code of Virginia
Title 9.1 - Commonwealth Public Safety
§ 9.1-189. Crisis intervention team protocol

VA Code § 9.1-189 (2015) What's This?

Each crisis intervention team shall develop a protocol that permits law-enforcement officers to release a person with mental illness, substance abuse problems, or both, whom they encounter in crisis situations from their custody when the crisis intervention team has determined the person is sufficiently stable and to refer him for emergency treatment services.

2009, c. 715.

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