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Officers Learn How to De-escalate Situations Involving Mental Illness
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office and Parker, Lone Tree and Castle Rock police departments are in the process of putting all their officers and dispatchers through Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training, an internationally recognized program that teaches how to recognize and build rapport with a person experiencing mental illness.
Eighty percent of the Parker Police Department has completed the training, and 68 percent of Castle Rock officers and 82 percent of Lone Tree officers have done so. In the sheriff’s office, 50 percent of deputies are trained in CIT.
Police Learn to Defuse Situations During Steamboat Springs Training
Twenty Colorado law enforcement officers were in Steamboat Springs last week to learn how to use words instead of force to defuse potentially deadly situations.
Included were six members of the Steamboat Springs Police Department, meaning all the officers, animal control officers and community service officers have now been through the training.
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CIT Youth Training in Holyoke, CO
Putting her training to the test, Tanisha Bules, at right, leans in to hear from a teen actor during a role play situation last week. Bules is the principal at IConnect High School in Fort Morgan through Centennial BOCES and was one of several schools and agencies represented at the Crisis Intervention Team training in Holyoke.