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Salt Lake City Crisis Intervention Team

Name of coordinating law enforcement agency:: Salt Lake City Police
Approximate number of officers in agency:: 60
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:: 4 (so far)

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:: Salt Lake City Police Department began it in this area. It has been phased in since the 2002 Olympics. It is now required training for all new recruits in the Academy.
Total number of officers in program:: 4 (so far)
Number of people with mental illness served:: 51-100
Catchment area:: The entire jurisdiction
Funding source(s):: Police Department
Staff supported by funding:: Law Enforcement Officer

Existence of planning and oversight committee:: No (please proceed to question 17)
Written agreement of roles and procedures:: Yes
Recruitment and selection:: Officers volunteer and all are selected.
Program coordinator/boundary spanner: Yes. The program coordinator represents a law enforcement agency
: Detective Ron Bruno Salt Lake City Police Department 801-799-3000

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

8

Basic in-service training for select patrol officers

8
Number of officers who receive advanced training:: 1-50

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:

Record information in a field encounter form, or other form used to document every citizen encounter

Record information in an arrest report

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:

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):

General hospital emergency room

Drop-off center accepts people with co-occurring substance abuse disorders:

Yes

Length of time for drop-off and return to patrol:

21-30 minutes

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