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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>64411</law_id><section_number>9.1-189</section_number><catch_line>Crisis intervention team protocol</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="9.1">Commonwealth Public Safety</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="1">Department of Criminal Justice Services</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="13">Crisis Intervention Teams</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Each crisis intervention team shall develop a protocol that permits <span class="dictionary"><span class="dictionary">law</span>-enforcement officers</span> to release a person with mental illness, substance abuse problems, or both, whom they encounter in crisis situations from their <span class="dictionary">custody</span> when the crisis intervention team has determined the person is sufficiently stable and to refer him for emergency treatment services.</p></section></text><history>2009, c. 715.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
