ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – In January, mental health counselors from Devereaux Advanced Behavioral Health hit the road with Orange County deputies.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office is the first and only law enforcement agency in Central Florida to place clinicians in-car with deputies and, since March, the two teams have been called out 390 times to active scenes. [TRENDING: Family barred from flight over child’s mask | Photos: Baby gators’ snouts taped shut | Bartender’s face slashed] Delaney Kirwin, a licensed behavioral health clinician at Devereaux, is paired with Deputy Kimberly Burk, 10 hours a day four days a week.