A 40-hour crisis intervention team (CIT) training session was hosted last week at the North Little Rock Justice Center by Dr. Buster Lackey, the executive director of National Alliance on Mental ...

Crisis intervention training Engemark, along with his colleagues Chad Poynter and Shannon Chambers have been full-time crisis intervention deputies for mental health calls since August.

Since CIT classes began in Lucas County about 20 years ago, more than 1,000 first responders have been trained.

Courses within the department, including Crisis Intervention Training (CIT), also teach this in more detail.

Crisis Intervention Team training is an annual in-service class taught to law enforcement officers across the state, modeled after a program devised by police in Memphis meant to help people in ...

Corey said that de-escalation training is already used in certain crisis intervention units and that this week a core group of 40 training officers will bring the curriculum to recruits in the ...