File #: 19-5558    Version: 1 Name: CMPD Crisis Intervention Team Program Presentation
Type: Manager's Report Status: Manager’s Report
File created: 7/1/2019 In control: County Manager's Office
On agenda: 8/7/2019 Final action:
Title: : CMPD Crisis Intervention Team Program Presentation
Attachments: 1. CIT Presentation_CMPD_Mecklenburg County_August 7 2019_071919.pdf, 2. 19-5558 Handouts.pdf
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Title:
CMPD Crisis Intervention Team Program Presentation

 

Summary

ACTION:
Receive as information a presentation from CMPD Chief Kerr Putney on the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Program

 

 

Staff Contact:                      Derrick Ramos, Assistant County Manager/Chief of Staff

 

 

Presentation:                      Yes                     

 

 

BACKGROUND/JUSTIFICATION:

The Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) is a partnership of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) with Mecklenburg County Public Health, the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), and Central Piedmont Community College for selected CMPD officers to be certified in crisis intervention and use that training in their law enforcement duties to provide safety, services, and jail diversion to behavioral health consumers and their families.

 

 

PROCUREMENT BACKGROUND:

N/A

 

 

POLICY IMPACT:

N/A

 

 

FISCAL IMPACT:

N/A