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Emotionally Disturbed Persons Response Team
Quick Facts:
- Name of coordinating law enforcement agency:
- troy, ny police department
- Approximate number of officers in agency:
- 140
- 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:
- 2006
- Total number of officers in program:
- ten
Emotionally Disturbed Persons Response Team
Contact:
- Name:
- Bob Corliss
- Title:
- Associate Director
- Organization:
- Troy, NY Police Department
- Address:
- 260 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY - Email:
- bcorliss@naminys.org
- Phone:
- 518-377-6138
Agency Information
- Name of coordinating law enforcement agency:
- troy, ny police department
- Type of government that operates law enforcement agency:
- Township
- Approximate number of officers in agency:
- 140
Specialized Response Description
- Program start year:
- 2006
- 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:
- NAMI-NYS co-sponsored a criminal justice/mental health conference in Albany NY at which time Sgt. Eric Weaver of fthe Rochester PD---EdPRT response Team presented. Thereafter, the Rensselaer County Mental Health Dept. and theTroy PD took steps to establish a program. Eric Weaver coordinated the training in January 2006 and the first 10 officers were trained and put on the street as EDPRT officers.Additional training is expected.
- Total number of officers in program:
- ten
- Number of people with mental illness served:
- 51-100
- Catchment area:
- The entire jurisdiction
- Funding source(s):
-
- Police Department
- Local Mental Health Department
- Staff supported by funding:
Program Partners and Personnel
- Existence of planning and oversight committee:
- No (please proceed to question 17)
- Committee participants:
- Mental health or advocacy agencies that participate in program:
- unknown
- Written agreement of roles and procedures:
- Yes
- Recruitment and selection:
- Officers volunteer and some are selected.
- Program coordinator/boundary spanner
- unknown
- The police chief is Chief Nicholas Kaiser, 518-270-4525.
Training on Mental Health Issues
- Types of training on mental health issues:
-
- Pre-service training for new recruits at the academy
- 16
- Advanced in-service training for select patrol officers
- Number of officers who receive advanced training:
- unknown
- Groups who conducts advanced training:
-
- Police officers
- Mental health professionals (crisis workers)
- Medical professionals (doctors or nurses)
- Consumers
- Advanced training methods:
-
- Presentations (including panels, lectures, and/or PowerPoints)
- Role plays
- Virtual reality/computerized simulations of mental illness symptoms
- Other information on training:
- unknown
Response Procedures
- Standardized dispatch questions:
- Not Sure
- Dispatch documentation:
- Not sure
- Incident documentation by responding officer:
- Not sure
- Mental health professional available to support police responder:
- 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
- The person is being brought to a crisis center or other health care facility for stabilization or medications management
- Officers allowed to transport a person without handcuffs:
- unknown
- Access to drop-off locations:
- No. (proceed to question 38)
- Drop-off center accepts people with co-occurring substance abuse disorders:
- No
- Length of time for drop-off and return to patrol:
- 31-45 minutes
Program Sustainability
- Data collection:
- Yes
- Published evaluation:
- No
- Local media coverage:
- Yes.
- Legislative funding or support:
- No
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