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Aurora Police Department Crisis Intervention Team
Quick Facts:
- Name of coordinating law enforcement agency:
- Aurora Police Department
- Approximate number of officers in agency:
- 600
- Primary specialized response:
- Police officers are trained to provide crisis intervention services and to act as liaisons to the mental health system.
- Program start year:
- 2005 or earlier
- Total number of officers in program:
- 91
Aurora Police Department Crisis Intervention Team
Contact:
- Name:
- CB Delena
- Title:
- Police Training Instructor / CIT Coordinator
- Organization:
- Aurora Police Department
- Address:
- 13328 E. Montview Blvd
Aurora, CO 80045 - Email:
- cdelena@auroragov.org
- Phone:
- 303-739-1601
Agency Information
- Name of coordinating law enforcement agency:
- Aurora Police Department
- Type of government that operates law enforcement agency:
- Township
- Approximate number of officers in agency:
- 600
Specialized Response Description
- Program start year:
- 2005 or earlier
- Primary specialized response:
- Police officers are trained to provide crisis intervention services and to act as liaisons to the mental health system.
- Secondary specialized response:
- There is only one specialized response program in the jurisdiction.
- Background information:
- Unknown. As CIT Coordinator, I am continually working on building a larger database of CIT trained officers. I have been the Department's Coordinator for approximately 2 years.
- Total number of officers in program:
- 91
- Number of people with mental illness served:
- 51-100
- Catchment area:
- The entire jurisdiction
- Funding source(s):
- State Mental Health Authority
- Staff supported by funding:
Program Partners and Personnel
- Existence of planning and oversight committee:
- No (please proceed to question 17)
- Written agreement of roles and procedures:
- No
- Recruitment and selection:
- Officers volunteer and some are selected.
- Program coordinator/boundary spanner
- No
Training on Mental Health Issues
- Types of training on mental health issues:
-
- 16
- Basic in-service training for all patrol officers
- 2
Response Procedures
- Standardized dispatch questions:
- Not Sure
- Dispatch documentation:
- Document in central computer database used for all calls, such as a Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system
- Incident documentation by responding officer:
-
- Record information on a form used only for mental health calls
- Record information in an arrest report
- Use of information on individuals' mental illness stored in police records:
- It's recorded in police reports.
- Mental health professional available to support police responder:
- No
- Officers permitted to transport people with mental illness to services when:
-
- The person has volunteered to receive mental health treatment
- The person is being brought to a hospital for emergency evaluation
- Officers allowed to transport a person without handcuffs:
- No
- Access to drop-off locations:
- Yes. It is open 24 hours a day.
- Procedure for streamlined intake and a "no refusal" policy for police referrals?
- No
- Location of drop-off center(s):
- General hospital emergency room
- Drop-off center accepts people with co-occurring substance abuse disorders:
- Yes
- Length of time for drop-off and return to patrol:
- More than 45 minutes
Program Sustainability
- Data collection:
- No
- Published evaluation:
- No
- Local media coverage:
- No
- Legislative funding or support:
- No
- Key to the program's success:
- We have trouble getting CIT officers to fill out the CIT forms allowing us to track the number of calls we respond to on a regular basis.
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