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Officials discuss coordinating CIT-trained officers with mobile outreach and dispatch
Summary
Task force members and law enforcement discussed how CIT-trained officers would coordinate with existing mobile crisis and outreach teams and the role of dispatch in routing calls to appropriate resources.
Members explored how CIT-trained officers would work alongside two existing mobile response models and how dispatch can triage calls so that the right resource responds.
Participants noted mobile outreach operates limited downtown hours and is resource-limited; in practice, an ideal response would have dispatch identify behavioral‑health calls and route either CIT‑trained officers or mobile outreach depending on scene safety and needs. "The CIT training is really about keeping things from escalating while it's in progress and then routing that person to the appropriate resource," one participant said.
