2020 Police Department Annual Report

In 2015, the Orland Park Police Department created a twelve (12) member Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) to assist in de-escalating potentially volatile situations where individuals were experiencing a mental health crisis. The OPPD CIT has continued to grow and now consists of thirty (30) state-certified CIT officers and supervisors. INVOLUNTARY COMMITTALS PERFORMED

MENTAL HEALTH

2016

93

2017

91

81

2018

84

2019

50

2020

The Crisis Intervention Team has been successful in reducing both the total number of incidents in which subjects are taken for psychiatric evaluation as well as the number of incidents in which they were transported involuntarily.

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