Royal Oak Police Department issued the following announcement on Apr 5.
Last week, the Royal Oak Police Department teamed up with the Oakland Community Health Network (OCHN) to host our first 40-hour Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training session. With a pilot class of fifteen police officers, including seven from ROPD, this training featured new curriculum recently released by CIT International, located in Utah. Joining Royal Oak PD officers in this pilot class were officers from the Birmingham, Bloomfield Twp., Auburn Hills, and the Southfield Police Departments.
Crisis Intervention Team training is a 40-hour course that helps law enforcement officers learn how to approach, assist, and deescalate individuals who are in mental health crisis. Eventually, our goal is to have everyone trained in CIT.
“Officers trained in CIT are now better prepared to respond and connect individuals in crisis to the mental health care they need,” said Royal Oak Police Chief Michael Moore. “The partnership between OCHN and law enforcement has made a tremendous difference for residents with mental illness who need treatment, not jail time.”
CIT is a community partnership of law enforcement, community mental health, individuals who live with mental illness and/or addiction disorders, their families, and other advocates. It is an innovative first-responder model of police-based crisis intervention training to help persons with mental disorders and/or addictions access medical treatment rather than place them in the criminal justice system due to illness-related behaviors.
Original source can be found here.
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