Indio Police Department's response to the 2023-2024 Grand Jury Report: Narcan - Saving Lives in Riverside County

The availability of Narcan has assisted law enforcement and the public in handling suspected opioid overdoses, increasing survival chances. . The depanment agrees with this finding. Since 2021, we have administered 68 doses of Na rcan.

There is a lack of guidance regarding what data should be tracked by law enforcement and other first responders when administerlng Narcan. The department agrees with this finding. Although we have been tracking our Narcan deployments since 2021, there is no county-wide collaboration on the speciftc data to collect and who should maintain it. II. RESPONSES TO RECOMMENDATIONS R.l. A comprehensive method should be created to collect pertinent Narcan data on a monthly basis from all emergency responders and/or medical providers. This data should include the number of incidents, dosages per incident, the number of lives saved, and the number of fatalities. The department has implemented this recommendation. Since 2021, we have collected weekly data on our Narcan deployments, logging the date, time, incident number, age, date of birth, Race, Gender, Observations prior to application, dosage administered, patient d isposition/outco me, lives saved, fatalities, EMS response and whether a user was transported to a medical provider. Currently, the department maintains all Narcan data usage logs and shares upon request. However, there is no centralized county-wide system to collect and store all logged data. We trust that these responses address the concerns raised by the Riverside County Civil Grand Jury's 2023-2024 report on Narcan's life-saving role in Riverside County. For further information, please contact Sergeant Ricardo Cerna at (760) 391-4031 or rcerna @ indio od. o rg. Cordially, Brian Tully Chief of Police CC: City Manager Bryan Montgomery City Attorney Steven Graham Director of City Clerk Services