Majority of recent Kelowna homicides have ‘significant’ mental health aspects: RCMP
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Kelowna RCMP gave a presentation at Monday's city council meeting regarding mental health related calls.
Kelowna RCMP superintendent Cara Triance announced that the majority of homicides within the city over the last two years has seen mental health play significant roles in those killings.
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A suspect was arrested under the Mental Health Act.
Kelowna RCMP has publicly said the detachment could use more resources from the provincial government to help with some of the mental health-related files officers have been dealing with.
“Significant mental health components (are) involved in three (homicide cases) that we are working on,” Supt. Kara Triance said at Monday’s city council meeting.
“Police officers continue to attend calls for service without a clinician, and so only 33 per cent of calls we attended, the 3,100 mental health related calls in 2021, had a clinician with them.
“We still have police officers attending calls for service that have a mental health component without a clinician with them.”
Two city councillors offered their thoughts on Kelowna RCMP’s presentation from Monday’s meeting.
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