Code of Virginia (Last Updated:July 28, 2020) |
TITLE 9.1. Commonwealth Public Safety |
CHAPTER 1. Department of Criminal Justice Services |
ARTICLE 13. Crisis Intervention Teams |
SECTION 9.1-189. Crisis intervention team protocol |
Each crisis intervention team shall develop a protocol that permits law-enforcement officers to release a person with mental illness, substance abuse problems, or both, whom they encounter in crisis situations from their custody when the crisis intervention team has determined the person is sufficiently stable and to refer him for emergency treatment services. 2009, c. 715 . |