The Government of Ontario has made positive investments in mental health support for police personnel. These investments include the Province’s Mobile Crisis Response Teams Enhancement Grant, which is part of Ontario’s Roadmap to Wellness to build Ontario’s mental health and addictions system and complements the government’s earlier commitments to protect people’s health and enhance mobile crisis intervention teams. The OACP will advocate with the Government of Ontario to commit to Provincial funding for crisis response teams for Ontario police services.
The OACP will continue to work with the Provincial Government and other agencies to divert and/or reduce the police interactions with those in crisis only when public/personal safety is at risk. This includes advocating for statutory amendments and funding changes that assist our police services in accomplishing this goal.