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Georgia World Congress Center Crisis Intervention Team
Quick Facts:
- Name of coordinating law enforcement agency:
- Ga. World Congress Center PD
- Approximate number of officers in agency:
- 35
- 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:
- 9
Georgia World Congress Center Crisis Intervention Team
Contact:
- Name:
- Kenneth Skinner
- Title:
- Captain
- Organization:
- Georgia World Congress Center Police Department
- Address:
- 285 International Blvd
Atlanta, GA - Email:
- kskinner@gwcc.com
- Phone:
- 404-223-4954
Agency Information
- Name of coordinating law enforcement agency:
- Ga. World Congress Center PD
- Type of government that operates law enforcement agency:
- County or Parish
- Approximate number of officers in agency:
- 35
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:
- Police officers are trained to provide crisis intervention services and to act as liaisons to the mental health system.
- Background information:
- Police Officers trained in CIT 40 hour course at the Atlanta Police academy. Officers began utitzing training immediately in interacting with the mentally challeged in centennial Olympic Park in downtown Atlanta.
- Total number of officers in program:
- 9
- Number of people with mental illness served:
- 51-100
- Catchment area:
- Part of the jurisdiction
- Funding source(s):
- Police Department
- Staff supported by funding:
- Law Enforcement Officer
Program Partners and Personnel
- Existence of planning and oversight committee:
- No (please proceed to question 17)
- Mental health or advocacy agencies that participate in program:
- National alliance fo the memally ill
- Written agreement of roles and procedures:
- No
- Recruitment and selection:
- Officers volunteer and some are selected.
- Program coordinator/boundary spanner
- Yes. The program coordinator represents a law enforcement agency
- Same
Training on Mental Health Issues
- Types of training on mental health issues:
-
- 40 Hrs
- Advanced in-service training for select patrol officers
- Number of officers who receive advanced training:
- 1-50
- Groups who conducts advanced training:
-
- Police officers
- Mental health professionals (crisis workers)
- Medical professionals (doctors or nurses)
- Consumers
- Advanced training topics:
- Recognizing symptoms of mental illness, and clinical issues
- Co-occurring disorders
- Psychiatric medications
- Community resources (mental health services, etc.)
- Legal issues concerning individuals with mental illness
- De-escalation techniques
- Less lethal use of force options
- The role of families and other supports in mental health treatment and recovery
- Advanced training methods:
-
- Presentations (including panels, lectures, and/or PowerPoints)
- Role plays
- Site visits to community mental health facilities
- Videotapes
- Other information on training:
- The crisis Intervention Team concept has had a huge impact on our departments interaction with the mentally challeged.Interaction that previously led to phyical confrontation and arrest have changed. In all incidents CIT officers have convince the mentally challeged in crisis to volunterly go with the officers to a treatment facility.
Response Procedures
- Standardized dispatch questions:
- Yes
- 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
- Use of information on individuals' mental illness stored in police records:
- Not used
- 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 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:
- Officer discresion
- 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?
- Yes
- Location of drop-off center(s):
- Psychiatric emergency room in general hospital
- Drop-off center accepts people with co-occurring substance abuse disorders:
- Yes
- Length of time for drop-off and return to patrol:
- 11-20 minutes
Program Sustainability
- Data collection:
- No
- Published evaluation:
- Crisis Intervention Team
- Local media coverage:
- Don't know
- Legislative funding or support:
- No
- Key to the program's success:
- NO
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