Crisis Response Team Investigator

Overview

Please ensure that you fill out this DPS criminal background check permission form (PDF). All that is needed is your name, signature, and the date. You will need to attach this to your application for it to be considered complete.

Crisis Response Team Deputies are Specialized Peace Officers who are empowered to function as an investigative arm of the State’s Probate Courts. They are entrusted to exercise professional, compassionate and caring judgment in regards as to which individuals need detention and psychiatric evaluation. Responds to crisis calls from the Midland County Sheriff’s Office, Midland County Detention Center, Culver Juvenile Detention Center, other law enforcement agencies, Crisis Response Team and family services agencies, local hospitals and clinics, and members of the community, which involve a possible mentally ill subject.

De-escalate crisis situations; negotiation situations, evaluate and determine if emergency hospitalization is required. Work with local Crisis Response Team facilities, local Crisis Response Team agencies, family services agencies, local hospitals, local clinics, and local doctors to assist the person suffering from a mental illness and their families with obtaining appropriate out-patient psychiatric care when there is no need for forcible emergency in-patient treatment;
Executes Orders of Protective Custody;
Executes Magistrate’s Orders For Emergency Detention and transports to local and State Hospitals across the State when ordered;
Diverts appropriate persons from the Criminal Justice System into the Crisis Response Team System.

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Include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Responds to crisis situations where a weapon is involved, that involve a discharged psychiatric patient or MHMR client, or where three or more police interventions have been requested within two weeks.
• Responds to crisis situations where the issues appear to be potentially explosive within the family.
• Responds to and investigates any “in-process suicide attempt or gesture or a suicide attempt or gesture is made and the individual is still alive.
• May be required to negotiate with barricaded subjects
• Serves OPC Hearing Notices
• Transports individuals to OPC Hearings and detention
• Warrantless emergency apprehension and detention
• Warranted emergency apprehension and detention (Magistrate’s Order)
• Investigation of strange or bizarre behavior
• Effectively intervening in situations involving violence and the person is known or suspected of suffering from a mental illness.
• Non-criminal interventions with persons exhibiting signs or symptoms of mental illness.
• Intervening with persons known to have or suspected of having been receiving recent or previous psychiatric or Crisis Response Team treatment.
• Transports mentally ill people to and from county hospitals, treatment facilities and State Hospitals.
• Assists Adult Protective Service Agency with emergency home removals.
• Conducts qualification for firearms proficiency.
• Educates the community and officers from other agencies about Crisis Response Team and how to respond to persons with a mental illness.
• Maintains State Call and Diversion Reports
• Maintains OPC Hearing dates
• Subject to on call for after hours Crisis Response Team calls and transports
• Assigned to the Fugitive Apprehension Search Team
• Assists with patrol duties and Civil or Warrant deputies as needed.
• Maintains county vehicle and equipment, and keeps…