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Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Crisis Intervention Team
Quick Facts:
- Name of coordinating law enforcement agency:
- Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department
- Approximate number of officers in agency:
- 1600
- 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:
- 450
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Crisis Intervention Team
Contact:
- Name:
- Scott Teagardin
- Title:
- CIT Coordinator
- Organization:
- Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department
- Address:
- 901 N. Post Road
Indianapolis, IN - Email:
- t5816@indygov.org
- Phone:
- 317 327 6739
Agency Information
- Name of coordinating law enforcement agency:
- Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department
- Type of government that operates law enforcement agency:
- Municipal
- Approximate number of officers in agency:
- 1600
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:
- Marion County Sheriff's Department and the Indianapolis Police Department joined with NAMI and local hospitals and developed a 40 hour training program in June 2003. Since then we have trained over 450 IMPD officers and an additional 200 people from various other agencies around the state.
- Total number of officers in program:
- 450
- Catchment area:
- The entire jurisdiction
- Funding source(s):
-
- Police Department
- Private foundation grant funding
- Staff supported by funding:
-
- Law Enforcement Officer
- Program Coordinator
Program Partners and Personnel
- Existence of planning and oversight committee:
- Yes, currently
- Committee participants:
-
- Law enforcement supervisory-level staff
- Mental health (and/or substance abuse) supervisory-level staff
- Family members of consumers
- Advocates
- Mental health or advocacy agencies that participate in program:
- NAMI, Wishard Hospital, Community Hospital
- Written agreement of roles and procedures:
- No
- Recruitment and selection:
- We are training recruit officers and veteran officers that volunteer
- 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:
-
- Pre-service training for new recruits at the academy
- 8 for all and 40 for most
- Basic in-service training for all patrol officers
- 2
- Advanced in-service training for select patrol officers
- 40
- Advanced in-service training for dispatchers and / or call takers
- 40
- Number of officers who receive advanced training:
- 201-500
- Groups who conducts advanced training:
-
- Police officers
- Mental health professionals (crisis workers)
- Medical professionals (doctors or nurses)
- Consumers
- Community members
- Advocates
- Family member of a person with mental illness
- 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
- Legal issues concerning police officer liability
- De-escalation techniques
- Less lethal use of force options
- Suicide prevention
- 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
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
- 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:
- 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:
- No
- Length of time for drop-off and return to patrol:
- 11-20 minutes
Program Sustainability
- Data collection:
- Yes
- Published evaluation:
- No
- Local media coverage:
- The local government channel covered our CIT awards banquet.
- Legislative funding or support:
- No
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