SDTMA FW: SB 29 CIT BEHAVIORAL MENTAL HEALTH TRAINING

Wed Feb 21 11:29:43 CST 2018

Please see below and attached from POST.

Brooke Amash
Training Coordinator
San Diego County Probation
2901 Meadowlark Dr.
San Diego, CA 92123
Brooke.Amash at sdcounty.ca.gov<mailto:Brooke.Amash at sdcounty.ca.gov>
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From: Wilson, Valna at POST [mailto:Valna.Wilson at post.ca.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 12:07 AM
To: Amash, Brooke <Brooke.Amash at sdcounty.ca.gov>; Carolyn "Cici" Amador <cclausen at gwc.cccd.edu>; Justin Burk <jburk at icso.org>
Subject: SB 29 CIT BEHAVIORAL MENTAL HEALTH TRAINING
Importance: High

To All:

If you would please forward the following message to your respective training managers/administrators distribution list.  This message is set as high importance.  As always I appreciate your assistance with getting messages out.

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As you are aware of the following:

Crisis Intervention Behavioral Health Training
Senate Bill 11 and 29
Impact on Law Enforcement
On October 3, 2015, Governor Brown, signed into law Senate Bill 11<http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB11> and Senate Bill 29<http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB29>.   In brief, the resulting laws mandate mental health training for Field Training Officers (FTO), an increase in hours in Learning Domain 37 of the Regular Basic Course, and POST to create, maintain, and make available a three hour mental health course. This information is intended to facilitate an understanding of the new laws and how they will be implemented. Please refer to the California Penal Code (PC) for a full description of each law.

California Penal Code 13515.29
(a) The commission shall establish and keep updated a field training officer course relating to competencies of the field training program and police training program that addresses how to interact with persons with mental illness or intellectual disability.

With the aforementioned legislative mandate Commission on POST posted the following on its web site:

By May 2016, POST will conduct an evaluation of the required competencies of the FTO program and Police Training Program. The goal of the evaluation is to identify areas where additional training is necessary to help law enforcement officers effectively address incidents involving persons with a mental illness or intellectual disability. This law requires an update to the current Field Training Manuals. POST will not require agencies to re-submit their entire field training manual for this update to mental health field training. POST will provide agencies with the necessary mental health competency changes, and an attestation form to verify that the changes have been incorporated into their field training program.

POST Basic Training Bureau (BTB) who manages the FTO/FTP recently contacted my Bureau - Training Delivery and Compliance (TDC) and advised that a number of POST participating agencies have not completed the necessary competency and attestation documents (attached).  I checked the roster as provided by BTB for agencies in Region 10; there are are good number of agencies who have not sent in their attestations asserting meeting the legislative mandate.  As this training requirement is a legislative mandate, please ask your FTP/FTO Managers and Supervisors to complete the necessary updates to your agency's Field Training Manual if they have not done so.  Further, please direct that the attestation is completed and sent to Commission on POST as soon as possible.

Questions regarding this requirement and other related issues can be directed to POST Law Enforcement Consultant Jim Grottkau, you can contact Jim at Jim.Grottkau at post.ca.gov<mailto:Jim.Grottkau at post.ca.gov> or 916-227-3935.

Thank you for your cooperation and assistance with this matter.  If you have any questions of me please feel free to contact me.

Val
Valna  (Val) Y. Wilson

Senior Law Enforcement Consultant II, Region X (counties of Imperial, Orange and San Diego), and

State of California Commission on POST Tribal Police Liaison

Training Delivery & Compliance Bureau

California Department of Justice Commission on POST

860 Stillwater Road, Suite 100

West Sacramento, CA 95605-1630

916.227.4872/Office

916.214.7616/Cellular

916.227.4823/Fax

valna.wilson at post.ca.gov<mailto:valna.wilson at post.ca.gov>

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