SMART Community Policing Act

This bill would add three new ways that state and local governments can use federal COPS community policing grant funds. Grants could pay to create or expand mobile crisis teams of mental health professionals and paramedics who respond to certain 911 calls and to direct requests from community members. Grants could also fund co-responder programs that pair a trained police officer with a behavioral health clinician or paramedic. A third use would be case management and outreach teams that follow up with people in mental or behavioral health crisis and connect them with services.

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Sponsors

• Michael F. Bennet Democrat sponsor
• 0 cosponsors