Illinois 'Battle Buddy' program sends cops with military background to respond to veterans in crisis
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Instead of sending in social workers, a pioneering Illinois police program designed to aide despondent and suicidal veterans deploys officers who have military backgrounds of their own to 911 calls about vets in crisis.
When 911 dispatchers at the Joliet Police Department receive a call, they’re trained to ask several routine questions – such as are there weapons in the house, is the subject COVID positive, and whether they served in the military. "If they say he's a veteran, and he's thinking of killing himself, then right away the lightbulb goes off and they know to that contact any Battle Buddy that's working at the current time to respond to the scene," Joliet Police Lt. Moises Avila explained to Fox News Friday.
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