"Our MET is our Mobile Evaluation Team," Lodi Police Department Sergeant Elias Ambriz said. "We go out and conduct outreach and try to provide support and services for Lodi residents facing mental health challenges."
Once a month, he and the MET connect with people who are struggling, whether that's with mental health or homelessness.
This hasn't always been available within the city. It was once discontinued because of funding cutbacks at the county level.
Sergeant Ambriz said that without the county's behavioral health services, this program wouldn't be possible.
The department's MET got back up and running just last month.
"We were able to contact an elderly Lodi resident who was identified as somebody we should try to contact, and she was deemed to be gravely disabled," Sergeant Ambriz explained. "With that, we were able to get her to the to a hospital and the hope is for continued support and services through behavioral health services."
"We're not there to get them in trouble," Ambriz said. "That's why the San Joaquin Behavioral Health, the clinicians, really take the lead on that to form that connection with them, so that they know that we're there to help them."
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