Have you seen cops? Cops know one thing -- doing violence. They are already terrible at handling folks with mental health needs, folks who aren't neurotypical, folks from other countries or cultures... I don't want them anywhere near kids.
Cops over here receive specific psychological training and profiling to deal with all kinds of different people.
Listen to the police scanner sometime. It is mostly boring.
"Dispatch, my arrestee just swallowed a bag of cocaine. Moving to meet EMS" is about as exciting things get.
We need plumbers