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S.F. police outline faster mental-health crisis training; commissioners press pace, funding and partners
Summary
The Police Department presented a retooled crisis intervention training program that shifts a 40-hour off-site course into a 24-hour in-house class to be offered monthly, tripling annual throughput to about 360 officers; commissioners and community speakers pressed for faster rollout, clarity on funding and continued community partnerships.
Assistant Chief Denise Schmidt told the Police Commission on Jan. 19 that the department has reworked its previous 40-hour Police Crisis Intervention Training into a 24-hour in-house course it plans to offer monthly, training about 30 officers per session and roughly 360 officers per year.
Schmidt said San Francisco had been cited as a model when the state developed post-mandated crisis-intervention elements, and that the old 40-hour program had trained roughly 929 officers over its lifetime. The new model, she said, preserves key components — recognition of mental illness, de-escalation, conflict…
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