C.I.T.

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Southwest Louisiana
Lake Charles Police Department
C.I.T.
Calcasieu Parish Sheriffs Office
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OUR VETERANS AND LAW-ENFORCEMENT
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PARTNERSHIP
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What Does This MEAN???

• Partnership SUPPORT
• Information
• KNOWLEDGE
• TRAINING
• For NAMI, Veterans Administration DOD
• Law Enforcement

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Southwest Louisiana C.I.T.

• Distance to Major Cities (in miles)
• Atlanta 670.2
• Baton Rouge 129.4
• Dallas 358.8
• Houston 142.8
• New Orleans 205.2

Lake Charles
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Southwest Louisiana C.I.T.
Lake Charles Demographics 2007 Population
71,757 2007 MSA Population 193,015 Square
miles 43.105 Square acres 27,587
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Southwest Louisiana C.I.T.Partnerships
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CLARICE RAICHEL NAMI National Board of
Directors

• Instrumental in the formation of the
• SWLA CIT Program
• Brought Major Sam Cochran to Lake Charles
• For a NAMI Awards Dinner
• Police Chief Don Dixon attends dinner
• Introduced to CIT and Major Cochran

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History of SWLA CIT
2002 Police Chief request Help in dealing with
Mental Illness November 08, 2004 Police shoot
knife-wielding erratic man February 2005 Lake
Charles Police Research program to Train
Officers in Mental Illness
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History of SWLA CIT
April 2005 Attend 40 hr Memphis CIT Training
Program Work with McNeese State University
Department Of Psychology August September
2008 Hurricanes Katrina Rita Strikes New
Orleans Lake Charles
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History of SWLA CIT
CIT Research Work STOPS July 2006 CIT
Research Work Resumes October 2006 Police
Shoot mentally ill man threaten School Resource
Deputy
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History of SWLA CIT
November 2006 First 40hr. CIT Class HELD in the
State of Louisiana May 2007 SWLA CIT
Program receives POST Approval As of May
2009 Trained over 300 Law-Enforcement Officers
and Mental Health Professionals
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Veterans and Mental Illness

• News concerning returning veterans having
  Physical
• Confrontations with Law-Enforcement
• Confrontations Resulted In
• Veterans being Arrested and Charged in Criminal
  Courts
• Serious Injuries, Fatalities Disrupted Families
  

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RESEARCH - Veterans PTSD

• What type of Mental Health issues are our
  Veterans Returning
• With
• What does this mean for Law-Enforcement
• How do we respond
• LEO Training - Skills compared to Veterans
  Skills/Training
• Better Trained - Knowledge of Weapons - Hand to
  Hand
• Combat Actual Combat Experience

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February 2007

• Lake Charles Police Department
• NEGOTIATION TEAM and SWAT TEAM
• Dispatched to
• HOSTAGE SITUTATION
• Barricaded in a Apartment
• SUSUPECT is an ARMED
• IRAQ Veteran
• holding his Girlfriend

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LCPD Reaches OUT to Alexandria, La. V.A. Hospital

• Alexandria V.A. Hospital is located 100 miles
  away
• Contact Dr. Dana Pollard-Boose, Psy.D.
• Clinical Psychologist
• Operation Enduring/Iraqi Freedom Program
• Alexandria VA Medical Center
• 318-473-0010

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LCPD Reaches OUT to Alexandria, La. V.A. Hospital

• Advised Dr. Pollard-Boose about CIT, what CIT is
  about
• how it works.
• Asked if she could assist in preparing an
  IN-SERVICE
• program to train LEOs and Mental Health
  Professionals
• Program to be geared toward PTSD Other Mental
  Health
• Issues facing the returning Veterans
• Training to last NO LONGER than 8 HOURS.

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LCPD Reaches OUT to Alexandria, La. V.A. Hospital

• Training offered in April 2008
• Over 70 L.E.O.s and Mental Health Professionals
  Attend
• Lunch Provided to ensure full 8hrs of training
• (Avoid lunch hour rush/no excuse in being late
  after lunch)
• Had program approved as certified CECs for
  Officers and
• Mental Health Professionals

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Central Louisiana

• Distance to Major Cities (in miles)
• Atlanta 568.2
• Baton Rouge 114.4
• Dallas 340.0
• Houston 236.5
• New Orleans 219.0

Alexandria, La.
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Central Louisiana
Alexandria Demographics 2007 Population
50,236 2007 MSA Population 147,000 Square
miles 27.0
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Alexandria to Lake Charles 95.7 Miles
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How Do We HELP!!!!
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We have 2 ears and 1 tongue in order that we may
hear more and speak less

• Communication
• is Law Enforcements
• MOST EFFECTIVE
• non-lethal weapon
• James McKenzie (Former Director FBI Academy)

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BE A GOOD LISTENER
Take your TIME, TIME is ALWAYS on Our side Be
Sympathetic Show Empathy Be Concerned about
the Veterans Problems
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EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION OEF/OIF Veterans

• The most reliable information Is
• Not
• What they say. but

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HOW THEY GO ABOUT SAYING IT
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FEED BACK

• Police Officer from Alexandria, La. Recently
  returned
• Veteran - Provided an in-sight into services he
  did not
• understand that was available from V.A.
• Advised the hardest thing he had to do upon
  returning was
• LEARN How to drive again.
• Mental Health Professionals Advised it provided
  an in-sight
• into available services and admission criteria.

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Goal EMPATHY

• Em, (Latin), means look
• Pathy, (Greek), means suffering
• Empathy - the ability to be aware of and
  sensitive to another persons feelings, thoughts,
  and experience.

EMPATHY ABSORBS TENSION
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Something to Think About
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PARTNERSHIP
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HELP Is Available ASK
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Lt. David Anders Lake Charles Police
Department 830 Enterprise Blvd. Lake Charles, La.
70601 Main 337-491-1311 Desk 337-491-1456 ext
1285 Fax [phone] E-mail
danders_at_mail.cityoflc.us FBINA 219