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DPH outlines security staffing changes and BERT expansion after declines in law-enforcement force incidents
Summary
DPH reported changes to hospital security staffing: expansion of the Behavioral Emergency Response Team (BERT), substitution of private security/community-based health workers for some deputy roles, training standards, and early indicators of decreased law-enforcement use of force.
Basil Price, DPH director of security, presented the department’s security staffing plan Sept. 5, outlining a multi-year shift toward health-led responses to behavioral emergencies.
Price said the plan initially proposed reducing sheriff’s deputies and adding psychiatric nurses and technicians to form a 24/7 Behavioral Emergency Response Team (BERT) focused on de-escalation and clinical care. Staffing shortages at the Sheriff’s Office, psych-tech training gaps in the…
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