Starting Monday, San Antonio’s mental health crisis response team will respond to 911 calls 24/7.
Starting Monday, a city team that responds to people experiencing mental health crises will work around the clock — instead of ending its work day before midnight, as it currently does. That change came at the request of the City Council last summer after San Antonio police officers shot and killed Melissa Perez , a 46-year-old mother who struggled with schizophrenia, during an early morning disturbance call to her Southwest Side apartment on June 23, 2023.
“The majority of calls are resolved on scene, taken to a hospital by emergency detention or transported to address another need,” said Jessie Higgins, chief mental health officer at the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District. Only two of the 1,224 calls resulted in arrests, which is the goal of the program: to reduce the number of unnecessary arrests and connect people in need with mental health care.
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