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Green Bay Police Community Crisis Intervention Team
Quick Facts:
- Name of coordinating law enforcement agency:
- Green Bay Police Department
- Approximate number of officers in agency:
- 190
- Total number of officers in program:
- 15
- Jurisdiction Level
- municipal
- Jurisdiction Type
- urban
- Age Level
- adult
- Criminal Justice System Focus
- Law Enforcement
Green Bay Police Community Crisis Intervention Team
Contact:
- Name:
- Jeremy Muraski
- Title:
- Lieutenant
- Address:
- 307 S. Adams Street
Green Bay, Wisconsin 54301 - Email:
- jeremymur@ci.green-bay.wi.us
- Phone:
- 920-448-3531
Agency Information
- Name of coordinating law enforcement agency:
- Green Bay Police Department
- Approximate number of officers in agency:
- 190
Specialized Response Description
- Background information:
- Program began approximately 2008. It is being expanded this year to include more officers and resources.
- Total number of officers in program:
- 15
- Funding source(s):
- Police Department
- Staff supported by funding:
- Law Enforcement Officer
Program Partners and Personnel
- Committee participants:
-
- Law enforcement line-level staff
- Law enforcement supervisory-level staff
Training on Mental Health Issues
- Types of training on mental health issues:
-
- Basic in-service training for dispatchers and / or call takers
- 4
- Advanced in-service training for select patrol officers
- 40
- Groups who conducts advanced training:
-
- Police officers
- Mental health professionals (crisis workers)
- Consumers
- Community members
- Advocates
- 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
- 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
- Ride-alongs
- Videotapes
- Virtual reality/computerized simulations of mental illness symptoms
Response Procedures
- 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
- Record information in a field encounter form, or other form used to document every citizen encounter
- Record information in an arrest report
- Use of information on individuals' mental illness stored in police records:
- Officer Safety Alerts
- 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
- The person is being brought to a crisis center or other health care facility for stabilization or medications management
- Location of drop-off center(s):
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- Psychiatric emergency / crisis center
- General hospital emergency room
Program Sustainability
- Key to the program's success:
- We ar ejust beginning to expand this program to have a greater role within our agency.
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