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SFPD says crisis-intervention teams expanded as officers respond to tens of thousands of mental-health calls
Summary
Lieutenant Mario Molina told the Police Commission on Sept. 13 that SFPD has trained hundreds of officers in Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) tactics and is partnering with the Department of Public Health to respond jointly to growing mental-health calls; department data show 32,673 such calls in two quarters.
San Francisco Sept. 13, 2017 The San Francisco Police Department told the Police Commission Wednesday that it has expanded crisis-intervention training and deepened its partnership with the Department of Public Health to manage a surge in calls involving people in mental-health crisis.
Lieutenant Mario Molina, who oversees the department's Crisis Intervention Program, said the department has trained 776 officers in the 40-hour CIT curriculum (the Memphis model) and about 850 officers in a newer 10-hour tactical phase that teaches team responses and tactics for safely managing people in crisis. Molina said the department's foot-beat outreach with DPH clinicians occurs twice weekly on Market Street and adjacent corridors.
The department reported heavy call…
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