Tag: Mental Health

Redding PD’s new Crisis Intervention Response Team touted after another successful intervention

REDDING, Calif., — Created last September, Redding Police Department’s new Crisis Intervention Response Team (CIRT) has already been put to the test numerous times – with great success – while responding to critical incidents and 911 calls for service involving citizens experiencing a mental health crisis. One such incident occurred yesterday afternoon, Friday, Dec. 3, when Redding police officers were dispatched […]

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Expanded mental health and addictive disease services to serve RivCo residents with new residential treatment facility 

Temecula — The community of Riverside County will ring in the New Year knowing that residents will have additional options for Behavioral Health treatment. With the opening of Jackson House Temecula, a short-term acute residential mental health and addictive disease treatment facility, residents will have greater access to needed behavioral healthcare beds in the community. This newly renovated facility, located […]

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Supervisors unanimously vote to add 20 mental health beds at SRMC

REDDING — Shasta County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday, Sept. 11, to adopt a resolution designating Shasta Regional Medical Center as an inpatient psychiatric facility to help meet the mental health needs of the community. The move will add twenty new – and local – mental health beds to the sixteen beds currently offered at Restpadd Psychiatric Health Facility […]

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RANCHO CUCAMONGA: Sheriff’s Sgt., stabbed in face and shoulder, in critical but stable condition

RANCH CUCAMONGA — A San Bernardino County Sheriff’s sergeant who was stabbed and slashed during a violent struggle with a knife-wielding man, Monday morning, Oct. 30, is in critical but stable condition. After being stabbed, the Sgt. opened fire at her assailant. The man was not struck by the fired rounds and he was later taken into custody, according to San Bernardino County Sheriff’s officials. […]

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MURRIETA: Machete-wielding man safely detained, hospitalized

MURRIETA – Authorities were forced to use a bean-bag shotgun and a taser to safely detain a machete-wielding man Tuesday, Jan. 31. The incident happened at a strip mall in the 25300 block of Madison Avenue near Murrieta Hot Springs Road in Murrieta. Murrieta police officers responded to the business about 6:52 p.m., after City of Murrieta dispatchers received several […]

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