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SEARCHThe long-established term "EDP" will be abandoned in favor of “mental health calls,” sources said.
NYPD officer will have to stop referring to mentally ill people as “EDPs" (“emotionally disturbed persons”) as part of a $37 million program to deal with serious mental-health emergencies, according to a new report on Monday.
The long-established term will be abandoned in favor of “mental health calls,” sources told The City website, which described the change in terminology as one of the “key elements” of a plan by Mayor Bill de Blasio to reform how cops deal with mentally ill people.
The plan calls for creating a “Behavioral Health Unit” in the NYPD and establishing “Co-Response Teams” of cops and mental-health workers who will respond to emergency calls in two “high-need” precincts in Manhattan and The Bronx.
NYPD sources blasted the reported directive to alter their language, the New York Post reports.
One officer said, “You have a cop who’s been calling people EDPs for 20 years. How’s he supposed to stop?” Others wondered how the edict would be enforced. And another responded with a sexually explicit expletive.
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