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Extracted from Consolidated Report
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Contra Costa County Grand Jury
• 2016-2017
Grand Jury Final Report 2016 - 2017 ContraCosta County Grand Jury Final Report
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Findings 9 findings
F1
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There are at least three possible agencies that may investigate a use of force incident involving the Sheriff’s Office.
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Page 158
The agency or agencies responsible for investigating a use of force incident involving the Sheriff’s Office depend on the severity of force and if it resulted in injury or death.
F3
Page 158
During the hiring process, selection of candidates for police officer training is detailed and thorough.
F4
Page 158
CIT training provides effective techniques for law enforcement officer to engage with persons in mental crisis or intoxicated with drugs or alcohol.
F5
Page 158
CIT training may reduce or eliminate the need for a law enforcement officer to use force.
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Page 158
A substantial number of law enforcement officers in the County have not yet attended CIT training.
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Page 158
The Sheriff’s Office does not have a method to provide updated CIT training material for past attendees of CIT training.
F8
Page 158
The Sheriff’s Office does not operate a MHET team.
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Page 158
The Sheriff’s Office has not studied whether implementing a MHET team would be an effective way to reduce the number and severity of Sheriff deputy responses to mental health related calls. Contra Costa County 2016-2017 Grand Jury Report 1710 Grand Jury Reports are posted at http://www.cc-courts.org/grandjury
Recommendations 5
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R1Page 159The Sheriff should consider broadening and enhancing CIT training to educate all law enforcement officers.
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R2Page 159The Sheriff should consider coordinating with the Contra Costa Police Chiefs Association in their effort to create additional CIT training in the County.
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R3Page 159The Sheriff should consider researching methods to document the effectiveness of CIT training, and identifying funds to do so.
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R4Page 159The Sheriff should consider providing annual updates of CIT training course materials to police departments in the County, and identifying funds to do so.
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R5Page 159The Sheriff should consider conducting a feasibility study to determine the benefits of establishing additional MHET teams.
Conclusions 1
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CL1The homeless situation in Contra Costa County is large enough to justify the effort to find additional funds to provide more shelter beds for the homeless. By closely examining the current County budget, with an eye toward pooling together enough money to establish an East County shelter and CARE center, the County could realize a financial benefit of reduced Health Service costs for the homeless that would be sufficient to cover the cost of investment. It appears that the County has been slow to react and has not taken sufficient steps to deal with the homeless problem. The County does enough to maintain the programs funded by HUD, but needs to do more to ensure that there are adequate services, shelters, and beds for all. Providing 418 beds for 1,607 homeless people is inadequate. With an increase in the number of complaints and visibility of the homeless, which can occupy a great deal of a police officers’ time, some local police department chiefs are finding money in their budgets to create homeless outreach teams that help direct the homeless to the shelters and care centers.
No Responses Found 5
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