Examples of Crisis Intervention Team model in a sentence
The Memphis, Tennessee CIT (Crisis Intervention Team) model is the most pervasive.42 A cadre of selected patrol officers (10 to 20 percent of those assigned to patrol) receive extra training (40 hours initially) and then serve as generalists/specialists—they perform the full-rangeof regular patrol duties, but respond immediately (from anywhere in the city) whenever crisis situations occur involving people with mental illness.
Crisis intervention team (CIT) training: means a forty (40) hour training curriculum based on the Memphis Police Department Crisis Intervention Team model of best practices for law enforcement intervention with persons who may have a mental illness, substance abuse disorder, an intellectual disability, developmental disability, or dual diagnosis that is approved by the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council.
The bill provides that the PTC shall develop and implement or incorporate into an existing training course, in consultation with a crisis intervention training center, a curriculum that applies the Crisis Intervention Team model to persons experiencing an economic crisis or struggling with a substance abuse disorder who come into contact with law enforcement first responders.
The Crisis Intervention Team model for responding to incidents involving juveniles and subjects suffering from mental illness is an emerging trend in law enforcement.
These same experts have been responsible for developing and evaluating crisis intervention curricula for programs in the state of Ohio and other areas throughout the nation, including municipalities involved in the consent decree process.The Crisis Intervention Team model itself is now in over 3,000 municipalities nationwide, which allows for the Monitoring Team to gauge the Division’s training in light of similar training initiatives implemented elsewhere.
The three pre-booking sites were similar, with two of the three sites, Memphis and Portland, employing the Crisis Intervention Team model (Steadman et al., 2001).
Under the bill, the program may include support for and coordination between the Police Training Commission (PTC) in the Division of Criminal Justice in the Department of Law and Public Safety and the Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services in the Department of Human Services to increase access to training programs that apply the Crisis Intervention Team model.
This bill requires the Attorney General, in consultation with the Commissioner of Human Services, to develop a pilot program to promote and encourage law enforcement officers Statewide to complete training that applies the Crisis Intervention Team model.
Although questioning the appropriateness of coercive treatment, generally, Winick advocates diversion programs for those who commit minor offenses, such as the Memphis Crisis Intervention Team model for police officers, whereby specially trained uniformed officers serve as primary or secondary responders to every call in which mental illness is deemed a factor.
The plan uses a Crisis Intervention Team model in conjunction with the Prince George’s County Police Department.