{"id":23441,"date":"2026-06-12T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/bay-minette-pd-sees-success-in-first-days-of-altapointe-ipad-program-fox10tv-com\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T21:50:00","slug":"bay-minette-pd-sees-success-in-first-days-of-altapointe-ipad-program-fox10tv-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/bay-minette-pd-sees-success-in-first-days-of-altapointe-ipad-program-fox10tv-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Minette PD sees success in first days of AltaPointe iPad program – fox10tv.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAY MINETTE, Ala. (WALA<\/a>) – Bay Minette Police Department has joined a mental health crisis response program that gives officers instant access to clinicians through iPads while responding to calls.
AltaPointe Health partnered with Mobile Police Department three years ago to launch the iPad program. Dr. Cindy Gipson said around 72% of calls have led to people going to the behavioral crisis center for treatment.
\u201cSome of those people would have been arrested otherwise or possibly sent to a hospital so it\u2019s getting people to the treatment they need when they need it quickly,\u201d Gipson said.
The program has expanded to almost 10 different agencies. Bay Minette Police joined this week.
\u201cWe have a serious issue with mentally ill and challenged persons wandering our streets and there was just no place for us to put them and most times they don\u2019t belong in the criminal justice system. They\u2019re not criminal, they\u2019re ill,\u201d Bay Minette Police Chief James Rosier said.
Bay Minette Police finished training this week and has already directed two people to treatment instead of jail.
\u201cWe were expecting to put them in the car and use them once or twice a month and we\u2019ve had them deployed now two days and in two days we\u2019ve helped people in need find proper services and not send them to a place that was no help at all,\u201d Rosier said.
AltaPointe said expanding the program to Bay Minette brings help to a rural area that typically has limited access to mental health resources.
\u201cIt\u2019s sometimes more difficult to staff rural areas but this is a force multiplier for us it gets a clinician anywhere and everywhere,\u201d Gipson said.
\u201cIt finally gives us a place to take those people, and I can\u2019t stress it enough, these people that don\u2019t belong in jail, they belong in facilities where they can receive services in help,\u201d Rosier said.
AltaPointe Health said Gulf Shores Police will join the program next week.
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