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2010 End of Year Survey Results of CIT Programs in North Carolina
Introduction
At the end of year 2010, a survey was conducted of the existing Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) programs in our state. Respondents were asked to provide their best estimate of the total number of participating law enforcement agencies, the names of these agencies, and the number of CIT law enforcement officers their programs trained by January 1, 2011. There are currently twenty-two (22) programs that have held CIT trainings in North Carolina, and surveys have been received from all of these CIT programs.
Results
The results from the twenty-two CIT programs currently in North Carolina are as follows:
These results, when compared to results from 2009, indicate that an additional 897 CIT officers became CIT certified in calendar year 2010, resulting in an increase of 47% from the previous year, and that an additional 71 law enforcement agencies began participating in a CIT program in North Carolina in 2010, representing a 58% increase from the previous year in the number of law enforcement agencies participating in a CIT program.
There are approximately 14,549 police officers and 7,683 sheriff’s deputies in North Carolina, or a total of 22,232 law enforcement officers in the state. The proportion of these North Carolina law enforcement officers that were CIT certified by January 1, 2011 was almost 14%.
The names of law enforcement agencies participating in a CIT program by 1/1/2011, organized alphabetically by LME, the number of law enforcement officers in the LME catchment area, the number of those officers in each LME who are CIT trained, and the proportion of CIT officers to total number of officers in each LME, are as follows:
There are a total of 373 law enforcement officers in the Alamance-Caswell LME (Alamance and Caswell counties), and 82 of those officers (22%) are CIT certified. Officers from the following agencies have been CIT trained:
There are a total of 704 law enforcement officers in the Beacon LME (Edgecombe, Greene, Nash, and Wilson counties), and 120 of those officers (17%) from the following agencies have been CIT trained:
There are a total of 1,107 law enforcement officers in the CenterPoint LME (Davie, Forsyth, and Stokes counties), and 246 of those officers (22%) from the following agencies have been CIT trained:
There are a total of 452 law enforcement officers in the Crossroads LME (Iredell, Surry, and Yadkin counties), and 43 of those officers (10%) from the following agencies have been CIT trained:
There are a total of 343 law enforcement officers in the Cumberland LME (Cumberland County), and 101 of those officers (29%) from the following agencies have been CIT trained:
There are a total of 699 law enforcement officers in the Durham LME (Durham County), and 180 of those officers (26%) from the following agencies have been CIT trained:
There are a total of 1,081 law enforcement officers in the East Carolina Behavioral Health LME (Beaufort, Bertie, Craven, Gates, Hertford, Jones, Northampton, Pamlico, and Pitt counties), and 201 of those officers (19%) from the following agencies have been CIT trained:
There are a total of 621 law enforcement officers in the Eastpointe LME (Duplin, Lenoir, Sampson, and Wayne counties), and 65 of those officers (10%) from the following agencies have been CIT trained:
There are a total of 563 law enforcement officers in Five County LME (Franklin, Granville, Halifax, Vance, and Warren counties), and 104 of those officers (18%) from the following agencies have been CIT trained:
There are a total of 1,047 law enforcement officers in the Guilford LME (Guilford County), and 46 of those officers (4%) from the following agencies have been CIT trained:
There are a total of 541 law enforcement officers in the Mecklenburg LME (Mecklenburg County), and 267 of those officers (49%) from the following agencies have been CIT trained:
There are a total of 601 law enforcement officers in the Mental Health Partners LME (Catawba and Burke counties), and 80 of those officers (13%) from the following agencies have been CIT trained:
There are a total of 552 law enforcement officers in the Onslow LME (Carteret and Onslow counties), and 60 of those officers (11%) from the following agencies have been CIT trained:
There are a total of 323 law enforcement officers in the OPC LME (Orange, Person, and Chatham counties), and 65 of those officers (20%) from the following agencies have been CIT trained:
There are a total of 927 law enforcement officers in the Pathways LME (Gaston, Lincoln, and Cleveland counties), and 18 of those officers (2%) from the following agencies have been CIT trained:
There are a total of 1,527 law enforcement officers in the PBH LME (Cabarrus, Davidson, Rowan, Stanley, and Union counties), and 317 of those officers (21%) from the following agencies have been CIT trained:
There are a total of 1,154 law enforcement officers in the Sandhills LME (Anson, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, and Richmond counties), and 166 of those officers (14%) from the following agencies have been CIT trained:
There are a total of 1,018 law enforcement officers in the Smoky Mountain Center LME (Alleghany, Alexander, Ashe, Avery, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon, McDowell, Swain, Watauga, and Wilkes counties), and 58 of those officers (6%) from the following agencies have been CIT trained:
There are a total of 1,106 law enforcement officers in the Southeastern Center LME (Brunswick, New Hanover, and Pender counties), and 150 of those officers (14%) from the following agencies have been CIT trained:
There are a total of 633 law enforcement officers in the Southeastern Regional LME (Bladen, Columbus, Robeson and Scotland counties), and 58 of those officers (9%) from the following agencies have been CIT trained:
There are a total of 1,840 law enforcement officers in the Wake LME (Wake County), and 476 of those officers (26%) from the following agencies have been CIT trained:
There are a total of 1,252 law enforcement officers in the Western Highlands LME (Buncombe, Henderson, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Transylvania, and Yancey counties), and 129 of those officers (10%) from the following agencies have been CIT trained:
Summary
Although great progress has been made in disseminating CIT throughout the state, much remains to be done.
Penetration of CIT in law enforcement agencies remains uneven; with some agencies having sufficient numbers of CIT trained officers, and other agencies having few or no CIT trained officers.
In addition, many agencies participating in CIT have yet to establish protocols, implement procedures, and provide training to telecommunicators to assure that CIT officers are dispatched on all “mental disturbance” calls. Furthermore, the ability of local mental health systems to provide a drop off capacity and a quick turnaround for law enforcement varies greatly throughout the state.
Measuring progress in these areas requires the consistent collection of data on penetration rates of CIT for each law enforcement agency, and on numbers of telecommunicators trained in each area.
These data are only now beginning to be collected, and are reported on the survey forms submitted by each LME, and attached to this End of Year Report. Data is also needed on turnaround times for law enforcement when bringing persons to treatment. Persons interested in obtaining technical assistance in establishing a process for collecting these data should contact Dr. Kurtz at the phone number or email address listed below.
As CIT programs in North Carolina mature and expand, we hope that their local data collection efforts mature and expand with them, enabling us to provide a more complete and useful North Carolina CIT end-of-year report.
Questions about these survey results should be addressed to Bob Kurtz, Ph.D., by telephone at 919 / 715-2771 or via email at bob.kurtz@dhhs.nc.gov
Others include other first responders, such as fire fighters and Emergency Medical Staff (EMS), magistrates, probation officers, and officers from police departments in neighboring states.
Statistics obtained from the North Carolina Dept. of Justice, Training and Standards Division.
The Mayodan, Madison, Eden, and Reidsville Police Departments and Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office participated in the Alamance CIT program in 2009, but joined the CenterPoint CIT program in the later part of 2009, and will be participating in CenterPoint’s CIT program in 2010.
Click here to obtain the raw data submitted from the LMEs, upon which this 2010 End of Year report is based.
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