Harris County Sheriff's Office starts telepsychiatry program
December 21, 2017
HOUSTON (AP) — The nice old man near Old Town Spring calls 911 every month or so to complain about people hiding in the attic of his home.
The Houston Chronicle reports there's nothing there, of course, except the inventions of his dementia and schizoaffective disorder. But he's now on a first-name basis with the Sheriff's Office Crisis Intervention Response Team.
They don't arrest him, not even when they find 55 gallons of gasoline stashed in the attic to keep out the imaginary people.
Now the Harris County Sheriff's Office may have a better solution. A new telepsychiatry pilot program will a...
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