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Police commission reviews Crisis Intervention Team curriculum, plans pilot training in Tenderloin
Summary
Police commissioners received a detailed update on a 40-hour Crisis Intervention Team curriculum emphasizing behavior-based de-escalation, role-play and people-with-lived-experience participation; pilot classes of about 25 volunteer officers are planned for the Tenderloin, Southern and Mission stations with a targeted POST submission and an initial rollout in July'August.
The San Francisco Police Commission on June 22 received a detailed briefing on a proposed Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training program that organizers say will equip officers with behavior-focused de-escalation tools and scenario-based practice.
Captain John Goldberg, who leads the department's administrative implementation work, told commissioners the committee has drafted a 40-hour curriculum organized around daily themes such as suicide, voices and hallucinations, veterans and trauma, and agitated behavior. "Training is only one aspect of a much bigger picture," Cecile O'Connor, program director at the Dort Urgent Care Clinic, told the commission, urging partnership with community providers and people with lived experience.
The committee said…
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