Handling Persons with Special Needs Flashcards
Special Needs:
CIT SCOPE entry CIT 3B?
Knife impounded
Special Needs:
CIT SCOPE entry CIT 1C?
Previously legal’d for mutilating self
Special Needs:
CIT SCOPE entry CIT 2?
Previous Violence towards Officers
Special Needs:
Who directs CIT activities during a CIT event?
- Senior CIT Officer unless relieved by a supervisor
Special Needs:
CIT officers WILL be dispatched?
- Mental Illness
- Violent or Volatile Suicidal threats
- ED
- Walkaway mental patients
Special Needs:
CIT will NOT be dispatched?
- Vague suicide
- Intentional or Accidental overdose, no mental illness
- Report purposes only
Special Needs:
Generally the Dept ________ assist in the routine transport of mental health patients.
Will Not
Special Needs:
Who approves LVMPD responding to a district court-ordered admission to a mental health facility?
WC
Special Needs:
Armed department personnel are required to secure _____ weapons when responding to a Mental Health Facility for investigative purposes.
All
Special Needs:
Discretionary actions are still_________ when investigating crimes committed by mentally ill subjects?
Discretionary
Special Needs:
If making an arrest of a mental health patient at a facility what two things are required?
- Voluntary statement from supervising physician indicating that the crime committed was NOT a result of mental illness
- Physician’s discharge of the patient.
Special Needs:
A juvenile patient under court order is at Rawson Neal. The juvenile breaks a window at the facility and the supervising doctor calls LVMPD to have the juvenile arrest for destruction of property, he is willing to write the appropriate voluntary and discharge, do you arrest?
NO. Take a report only.
Special Needs:
Persons experiencing ED should be considered _________?
In medical Crisis
Special Needs:
What three things should be requested on a call of Excited Delirium?
- Medical
- Supervisor
- CIT Officer
Special Needs:
Patients experiencing excited Delirium often have _______ body temperature and ________ Heart rate.
Elevated
Increased
Special Needs:
An ED custody plan should be executed ________?
Quickly
Special Needs:
LVMPD ______ use its personnel as sign language interpreters or translators if there is a conflict of interest?
Will not
Special Needs:
A Deaf individual wants to call his 8-year-old son to interpret his signs for him in a routine report call, per policy is this allowed?
NO, minors are not to be used unless there is an imminent threat to the safety or welfare of an individual.
Special Needs:
Who should officers call to assist with the appropriate placement of homeless individuals? Are Homeless people required to accept assistance?
Homeless Liaison
No, unless an arrest situation is being deferred
Special Needs:
T/F Officers will not assist in the removal or the destruction of personal items during a homeless encampment stand-by?
True
Special Needs:
If an Arrest is made on a homeless person, and it becomes necessary to dispose of personal items for health and safety reasons, how is this handled?
Documented in an Officers Report.
Special Needs:
Protective Custody for an intoxicated individual is a __________?
Last resort option
Special Needs:
Westcare will NOT accept intoxicated individuals who are?
- Psychotic
- Have OD’d on drugs
- On PCP
4 Experiencing Delirium - Injured requiring medical attention.
Special Needs:
T/F, Epilepsy, mental retardation, Alzheimer’s, addiction/dependency are in and of themselves mental illnesses?
False
