Canada - Regis Korchinski-Paquet, 29, dies from balcony fall, Toronto, 27 May 2020

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toro...and-mobile-crisis-intervention-team-1.5726548
Sept 17 2020

''In recent months, there's been a spotlight on calls to police about people in crisis that did not end peacefully, most notably the recent deaths of Ejaz Choudry, D'Andre Campbell — both shot and killed by police in the GTA — and the death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet. Critics say there has to be a better way to respond to mental health calls so they don't end in tragedy.

Toronto Police Deputy Chief Peter Yuen says the force is working to expand the MCIT from 10 teams to at least 16 — which would allow one team for each division — as well as to extend their hours and provide them with more specialized training.''


'Yuen told CBC Toronto the hope is for each of the city's 16 police divisions to have its own team, and for the service to double the operating hours from 10 to 20 hours a day.

Other proposed changes include embedding mental health crisis workers with 911 communications teams to help connect callers with mental health services, rather than dispatching police or first responders.

Yuen added the Toronto Police Service is also working to change the uniforms of responding MCIT members.''
 
Jan 20 2022
Toronto’s first-ever mental health crisis response teams — without police — to launch in March | The Star
''Toronto’s long-awaited civilian-led mental health crisis response teams are set to take to the streets within weeks.

The city unveiled new details on its non-police mental health crisis response effort, on Wednesday, including a revised launch date of March for two of four planned pilot teams, and an ask of an additional $8.5 million in funding this year to help them run.

The Community Crisis Support Service teams are the first of their kind in the province, and will dispatch nurses and mental health support workers instead of police officers to respond to 911 calls about people in crisis.


They were approved unanimously by City Council last February after growing protests against police brutality and the death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet, an afro-Indigenous Toronto woman who died in police presence during a mental health crisis call in May 2020.''
 
''The video was shared by Jason E. Bogle, the lawyer representing Korchinski-Paquet's family, on Wednesday afternoon during a news conference announcing a $10-million civil lawsuit in connection with her death.

In the statement of claim filed on Monday, the Ministry of the Attorney General of Ontario, the City of Toronto, the Toronto Housing Community, Special Investigations Unit (SIU) Director Joseph Martino and five Toronto police officers who responded to the incident were named as defendants.''
 

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