CONSERVATOR REQUESTING PEACE OFFICER ASSISTANCE
CALIFORNIA WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE (WIC)
DIVISION 5. COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
PART 1. THE LANTERMAN-PETRIS-SHORT ACT
CHAPTER 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
SECTION 5358.5:
When any conservatee placed into a facility pursuant to this chapter leaves
the facility without the approval of the conservator or the person in charge
of the facility, or when the conservator appointed pursuant to this chapter
deems it necessary to remove his conservatee to the county designated
treatment facility, the conservator may take the conservatee into custody and
return him to the facility or remove him to the county designated treatment
facility.
A conservator, at his discretion, may request a peace officer to
detain the conservatee and return such person to the facility in which he/she
was placed or to transfer such person to the county designated treatment
facility, pursuant to Section 7325 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
Such request shall be in writing and accompanied by a certified copy of the
letters of conservatorship showing the person requesting detention and
transfer to be the conservator appointed pursuant to this chapter as
conservator of the person sought to be detained.
Either the conservator or
his assistant or deputy may request detention under this section.
Whenever
possible, persons charged with apprehension of persons pursuant to this
section shall dress in plain clothes and shall travel in unmarked vehicles.
(Amended by Stats. 1974, Ch. 833)
Pursuant to the above WIC Sec 5358.5,
I,__________________________________________________ , conservator
(Conservator)
for _______________________________________________
______________________,
(Conservatee)
(Court Case #)
hereby request the assistance of____________________________________________
(Law Enforcement Agency)
to detain the conservatee and return such person to the facility in which
he/she was placed.
Facility: _________________________________
Address: ____________________________________________
OR
COUNTY DESIGNATED TREATMENT FACILITY
Attached hereto is a certified copy of my “Letters of Conservatorship”
showing that I am the conservator appointed pursuant to this chapter as
conservator of the person sought to be detained.
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