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Springville Critical Incident Training
Quick Facts:
- Name of coordinating law enforcement agency:
- Springville Police Department
- Approximate number of officers in agency:
- 25
- 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:
- 10
Springville Critical Incident Training
Contact:
- Name:
- Scott Finlayson
- Title:
- Chief of Police
- Organization:
- Springville Police Department
- Address:
- 45 South Main St
Springville, UT - Email:
- chief@springville.org
- Phone:
- (801) 489-9421
Agency Information
- Name of coordinating law enforcement agency:
- Springville Police Department
- Type of government that operates law enforcement agency:
- Township
- Approximate number of officers in agency:
- 25
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:
- Mental health professionals partner with law enforcement officers to provide on-scene crisis intervention and referral.
- Background information:
- The program is county wide and follows a model started with the Salt Lake City Police Department in 2003. The program in our county took one year to become operational. Our program is a county wide program that teaches officers from all county agencies.
- Total number of officers in program:
- 10
- Number of people with mental illness served:
- 51-100
- Catchment area:
- The entire jurisdiction
- Funding source(s):
-
- Police Department
- Sheriff's Department
- Local Mental Health Department
- Staff supported by funding:
-
- Law Enforcement Officer
- MH Service Provider (e.g. case manager, social worker)
- Medical professional (e.g. nurse, doctor)
Program Partners and Personnel
- Existence of planning and oversight committee:
- Yes, currently
- Committee participants:
-
- Law enforcement supervisory-level staff
- Law enforcement leadership
- Mental health (and/or substance abuse) supervisory-level staff
- Mental health (and/or substance abuse) leadership
- Mental health or advocacy agencies that participate in program:
- Wasatch Mental Health
- Written agreement of roles and procedures:
- No
- Recruitment and selection:
- Officers are assigned.
- Program coordinator/boundary spanner
- Yes. There are multiple program coordinators
- Jeri Aldridge, Wasatch Mental Health (801)373-4766
Training on Mental Health Issues
- Types of training on mental health issues:
-
- Pre-service training for new recruits at the academy
- 4
- Basic in-service training for all patrol officers
- 4
- -
- Basic in-service training for dispatchers and / or call takers
- 4
- 40
- 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)
- Advanced training topics:
- Recognizing symptoms of mental illness, and clinical issues
- Co-occurring disorders
- 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:
- 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
- Record information in log maintained by mental health personnel at the crisis drop-off location or by some other mental health organization
- Use of information on individuals' mental illness stored in police records:
- It is attached to their name file and can be accessed if they call in again to alert the dispatcher and officer the person may have a mental illness and has had police contact in the past.
- Mental health professional available to support police responder:
- Yes, both on-site and remotely
- 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:
- No
- Access to drop-off locations:
- At times the mental health facility is full and will not accept new patients. If this happens we coordinate with them to find space in another state facility.
- 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:
- More than 45 minutes
Program Sustainability
- Data collection:
- Yes
- Published evaluation:
- I am not sure. I believe Salt Lake City Police Department has tracked and recorded their program response.
- Local media coverage:
- Yes.
- Legislative funding or support:
- No
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