Nathalie Chambers Saanich Councillor

Murdock write to the province asking for an increase in support for Saanich police to better deal with an increase in mental-health calls. The letter will also ask for additional funding to increase the capacity of the south Island’s Integrated Mobile Crisis Response Team. On the team, child and youth mental health clinicians work alongside adult mental health clinicians, social workers, nurses and plain-clothes police officers to provide a “rapid, mobile, community-based” response to children,