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SFPD Crisis Intervention Team reports staffing gains, training expansion and CareLink rollout plan

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Lieutenant Donald Anderson presented the CIT 2024 annual report: staffing doubled, a new CareLink tool for people with mental-health or developmental disabilities is planned, and calls for service dropped 27% year over year as SFFD and other partners took on some wellness checks.

Lieutenant Donald Anderson, officer in charge of SFPD's Crisis Intervention Team (CIT), presented the unit's 2024 annual report to the Police Commission and described staffing, training and partnership changes.

Anderson said CIT staffing grew from four to eight officers in 2024 and the unit moved from headquarters to Park Station to centralize response. The unit aims to expand to seven-day coverage when staffing…

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