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Clackamas County Sheriffs Office Crisis Intervention Team

Name of coordinating law enforcement agency:: Clackamas County Sheriffs Office
Approximate number of officers in agency:: 200
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:: 50 + within jurisdiction

Name of coordinating law enforcement agency:: Clackamas County Sheriffs Office
Type of government that operates law enforcement agency:: Municipal
Approximate number of officers in agency:: 200

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:: Police officers are trained to provide crisis intervention services and to act as liaisons to the mental health system.
Background information:: Program began with Sheriff Roberts desire to assist the mental health community. Started classes and now have trained over 120 officers throughout the county.
Total number of officers in program:: 50 + within jurisdiction
Number of people with mental illness served:: 101-200
Catchment area:: More than one jurisdiction
Funding source(s):: Sheriff's Department

Local Mental Health Department
Staff supported by funding:: Law Enforcement Officer

Existence of planning and oversight committee:: Yes, currently
Committee participants:: Law enforcement line-level staff

Law enforcement supervisory-level staff

Law enforcement leadership

Mental health (and/or substance abuse) line-level staff

Mental health (and/or substance abuse) supervisory-level staff

Mental health (and/or substance abuse) leadership

Consumers of mental health services

Family members of consumers

Advocates
Mental health or advocacy agencies that participate in program:: NAMI, Clackamas County Public Health
Written agreement of roles and procedures:: No
Recruitment and selection:: Officers volunteer and some are selected.
Program coordinator/boundary spanner: Yes. There are multiple program coordinators
: Same

Types of training on mental health issues:: Pre-service training for new recruits at the academy

24 hours in academy (Not yet initiated)

Basic in-service training for select patrol officers

40 hours of specialized training

Basic in-service training for dispatchers and / or call takers

40 hour basic for selected individuals.
Other information on training:: It is a basic 40 hour CIT program fashioned after the Memphis program

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:: Relay information to dispatch who records it in general computer database used for all calls, such as a Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system
Mental health professional available to support police responder:: Yes, remotely by telephone or dispatch (e.g. a crisis worker or psychiatric emergency room personnel)
Officers permitted to transport people with mental illness to services when:: 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:: No. (proceed to question 38)
Length of time for drop-off and return to patrol:: More than 45 minutes

Data collection:: No
Published evaluation:: No
Local media coverage:: CIT program through local paper did article.
Legislative funding or support:: No
Key to the program's success:: We are working on several avenues in working with outside agencies.

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