A Look at Sheriff Department’s First Line of Support Amidst a 20-Percent Increase in Local Mental Health Calls
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Jeremy Castleberry, the County’s crisis intervention officer.
Police are often the first people called when someone suffers a mental health crisis. In Fayette County, those calls go to Sheriff’s Deputy Jeremy Castleberry, the County’s crisis intervention officer.
Castleberry carries a gun just like other law enforcement officers, but he wears street clothes and drives an unmarked vehicle. He refers to the people he works with as “clients,” not “suspects”…
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