• Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      That’s actually really cool. At least in the US, there’s few places that have public ambulance services, which you need because there are no private crisis response units in the country. There’s not even a framework to certify them. So what winds up happening is that you call an ambulance, the paramedics arrive and are neither trained nor equipped to handle a serious mental health crisis, they call the police and then we’re back to square one.

      But I’m glad you live somewhere that both has crisis response units and funds them enough that they are actually capable of doing anything.

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      7 months ago

      How do you specifically call for an ambulance and not cops? How do you stop the 911 dispatcher from sending cops?

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        6 months ago

        There’s a different number. 110 gets the police, 112 emergency services (so either fire department, ambulance, or an emergency doctor).