Summary
"The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is committed to improving its response to the mental health needs of its members and the individuals they serve, in our communities. The OPP recognizes the importance of these issues and is taking a comprehensive and integrated approach in the OPP Mental Health Strategy: Our People, Our Communities. This important strategy contains two distinct but linked components - Supporting Our People: Healthy Workforce and Supporting Our Communities: Police Interactions with People with Mental Health Issues. They share common values and concerns and many of the priority activities of each complement the other."--Introduction.
Contents
1. Commissioner’s message -- 2. Shared values -- 3. Introduction -- 4. One in five -- 5. Our commitment, our goal and priorities for action -- 6. Governance -- 7. Definitions and language -- 8. Supporting our people: healthy workforce -- 9. Supporting our people: priorities for action -- 10. Supporting Our communities: police interactions with people with mental health issues -- 11. Supporting our communities: priorities for action -- 12. Conclusion.