                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CRISIS INTERVENTION TEAM PROTOCOL (§ 9.1-189)

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.

HISTORY: 2009, c. 715.