Probably true, and goes to complaints from police officers that they're also expected to be counselors as well as enforcers. On the other hand, asking someone

Probably true, and goes to complaints from police officers that they're also expected to be counselors as well as enforcers. On the other hand, asking someone to go into a situation that may put themselves at risk (for some cases of welfare checks) without appropriate training or equipment (or leaving the distinction of which is which to some third party not on the scene) doesn't seem like a good idea either, and at the point where you have a force that's equipped to protect themselves and possibly restrain others, that begins to sounds a lot like a police force, so I can see why they just use the police. There's probably some solutions along the lines of different shifts for those with different training with different load outs, or additional trained personnel in sets of police, but all of those also have some problems I can see and don't address officers being dispatched that are prone to use force because of a prior altercation that day/week or trauma at some prior date.