File #: Int 0345-2024    Version: * Name: Establishing a mandatory mental health emergency response training for all uniformed members of the police department whose responsibilities include routinely interacting with arrested individuals and victims of crime.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Public Safety
On agenda: 2/28/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to establishing a mandatory mental health emergency response training for all uniformed members of the police department whose responsibilities include routinely interacting with arrested individuals and victims of crime
Sponsors: Mercedes Narcisse, Farah N. Louis, Crystal Hudson
Council Member Sponsors: 3
Summary: This bill would require the police commissioner, in collaboration with the commissioner of health and mental hygiene, to develop and implement a training on recognizing and responding to mental health emergencies. The training would be mandatory for all uniformed members of the department whose responsibilities include routinely interacting with arrested individuals and victims of crime on recognizing and responding to mental health emergencies. The training would provide information on symptoms of mental illness, effective communication with a person experiencing a mental health emergency, how to de-escalate a mental health emergency, and alternatives to involuntary removal to a hospital.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 345, 2. Int. No. 345, 3. February 28, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-28-24

Int. No. 345

 

By Council Members Narcisse, Louis and Hudson

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to establishing a mandatory mental health emergency response training for all uniformed members of the police department whose responsibilities include routinely interacting with arrested individuals and victims of crime

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 14 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 14-194 to read as follows:

§ 14-194 Mental health emergency response training. The commissioner, in collaboration with the commissioner of health and mental hygiene, shall create and implement a mandatory training for all uniformed members of the department whose responsibilities include routinely interacting with arrested individuals and victims of crime on recognizing and responding to mental health emergencies. Such members of the department shall complete such training within 1 year of the effective date of the local law that added this section and once every 2 years thereafter. The training shall provide information on:

1. The ways that symptoms of different mental illnesses can cause a mental health emergency;

2. How to effectively communicate with a person experiencing a mental health emergency;

3. How to deescalate a situation in which a person is experiencing a mental health emergency; and

4. Alternatives to involuntary removal, including offering to bring the person experiencing a mental health emergency to a hospital or other facility where medical care is provided or to a crisis respite center or clubhouse where non-coercive community based care is provided, and providing information about resources, including addresses and phone numbers, to enable the person experiencing the mental health emergency to access care independently.

                     § 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.

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