Public Safety Through Mental-Health Response Act

Manitoba's Bill 25 (Public Safety Through Mental-Health Response Act) is the Wab Kinew NDP government's flagship policing-and-mental-health bill responding to repeated calls from the Winnipeg Police Service, the IIU (Independent Investigation Unit), and Indigenous-justice advocates for alternative-response models. Authorizes the province to fund and certify mobile crisis-response teams co-staffed by mental-health workers and paramedics (sometimes alongside police, sometimes not), creates a binding annual reporting requirement on mental-health-related police calls (the WPS reported 23,000 such calls in 2023), and reallocates funds previously committed under the previous PC government to the IIU expansion.