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Laredo disability committee seeks expanded crisis-intervention training for officers, schedules special meeting with police
Summary
Committee members called for more law-enforcement crisis-intervention training (CIT), discussed barriers such as overtime and staffing, recommended budgeting for certification, and agreed to hold a special meeting with the police training division within about two weeks.
Members of the Laredo Board/Advisory Committee on Disabilities spent substantial time discussing options to expand crisis-intervention training for law enforcement officers and to ensure trained officers are available across shifts.
Dr. Casid, representing a local autism advocacy group, told the committee the group has worked with the Laredo Police Department’s mental-health partners and has delivered training in the police academy and to patrol units. “We have been training…we have a relationship where we go and we train their officers,” Dr. Casid said,…
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