Toronto pilot project could remove police from mental health calls — but not in emergencies

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After months of mounting calls to remove police from the front lines for people in mental health distress, the city of Toronto is proposing a pilot program that would see mobile crisis support teams dispatched to non-emergency calls in four communities with some of the highest rates of calls for people in crisis.

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