File #: Int 0040-2018    Version: * Name: Require the PD to issue a quarterly report on the dept’s response to calls involving people in mental crisis to measure the efficacy of the dept’s Crisis Intervention Team training program.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
File created: 1/31/2018 In control: Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction
On agenda: 1/31/2018 Final action:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York to require the police department to issue a quarterly report on the department's response to calls involving people in mental crisis to measure the efficacy of the department's Crisis Intervention Team training program.
Sponsors: Andrew Cohen, Justin L. Brannan, Diana Ayala
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 40, 2. Int. No. 40, 3. January 31, 2018 - Stated Meeting Agenda
Int. No. 40

By Council Members Cohen, Brannan and Ayala

Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York to require the police department to issue a quarterly report on the department's response to calls involving people in mental crisis to measure the efficacy of the department's Crisis Intervention Team training program.
Body

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Title 14 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 14-175 to read as follows:
? 14-175 Online reporting of the department's response to calls involving emotionally disturbed persons.
a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: Crisis intervention team. The term "crisis intervention team" means the department's training program designed to help officers assist individuals who are in crisis due to mental health problems, developmental disabilities, or substance abuse.
Emotionally disturbed person. The term "emotionally disturbed person" means a person who appears to be mentally ill or temporarily deranged and is conducting themselves in a manner which a police officer reasonably believes is likely to result in serious injury to themselves or others.
b. Crisis intervention team training report. No later than 30 days after the quarter ending March 31, 2018 and 30 days after every quarter thereafter, the department shall publish on the department's website a report which shall include:
1. the total number of calls received in which the dispatcher was aware of the involvement of an emotionally disturbed person;
2. the total number of calls in which the dispatcher was aware of the involvement of an emotionally disturbed person and a crisis intervention team trained officer was dispatched;
3. the total numbers of use of force incidents that involved an emotionally disturbed person;
4. the total number of calls in whic...

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