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San Francisco Police Commission hears detailed update on Crisis Intervention Team training and plans for evaluation
Summary
Command staff and community partners told the Police Commission the city's 40-hour Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) program has trained roughly 269 officers (about 19% of patrol) and is moving toward dispatchable CIT responses, new CAD codes and a formal evaluation using newly collected data.
Commander Richard Correa and members of a community working group told the San Francisco Police Commission on June 11 that the department's Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) program has moved from pilot training to an operational initiative that can be dispatched to crisis calls.
Correa, who introduced the CIT update, said the program centers on a 40-hour curriculum emphasizing de-escalation, recognition of mental illness, suicide intervention and veterans'specific issues and highlighted the consumer panel as a key component for changing officer perceptions. "The Consumer Panel for the officers is something they find most interesting," Correa said, adding it "removes a whole lot of stigma." The department has recertified the course under POST and revamped the curriculum, he said.
The department has also issued a deployment bulletin (Fourteen-143) and new CAD suffixes…
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