Definitions
A person 18 or older whose ability to perform the activities of daily living or to provide for their own care or protection is impaired
What is a Vulnerable Adult?
1-800-273-TALK
What is the Suicide Hotline?
This provides people who have a mental illness, or who may harm or neglect themselves or others, with an emergency service and temporary detention for psychiatric evaluation and voluntary or involuntary short-term inpatient treatment
What is the Baker Act?
These are two common forms of memory loss in elderly individuals
1. Dementia
2. Alzheimer's Disease
Potentially having a high level of defensive tactics training is a safety concern for officers responding to calls involving these individuals
What are Veterans?
Some signs and symptoms of this are loss of balance, slurred speech, disorientation, and irritability
What is a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)?
This is where a subject may attempt to end their life by intentionally provoking an officer to use deadly force
What is Suicide by Cop?
A federal civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities
What is the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)?
While the legal age of maturity is 18, the brain is not fully developed until this age
What is The Age of 25?
You should always presume this classification of person is in danger, as they are at considerable risk of falling prey to crime
What is a Runaway Child?
A false belief that is firmly held despite obvious proof or evidence to the contrary
What is a Delusion?
These groups, which refuse to recognize the authority of the government, train for preemptive attacks by the government, and are often arrested for weapons violations, pose a significant concern for deputies who come in contact with them
What are Militias?
When dealing with a person with a disability, you must ensure this is provided/explained in a manner the individual is able to understand
What are Miranda Rights?
A developmental disorder that is characterized by language and social development delay, as well as repetitive behaviors
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
The physical and mental symptoms that occur after chronic use of a drug is reduced or stopped
What is Withdrawal?
A disability that manifests before the age of 18, constitutes a handicap, and continues indefinitely
What is a Developmental Disability?
What is a Juvenile Offender under the age of 7?
These are the two questions you may ask an individual in a situation where it is not obvious if an animal is a service animal
1. Is the dog a service animal required because of a disability?
2. What work or task has the dog been trained to perform?
These individuals may not understand long-term consequences or be able to make appropriate choices, but can realize when they have done something wrong
Who are People with Mild Intellectual Disabilities?
Gangs are overwhelmingly comprised of these people
What are young males between the ages of 13 and 23?
A deeply ingrained, non-psychotic, inflexible pattern of relating, perceiving, or behaving
What is a Personality Disorder?
These are your goals during a crisis situation
-Ensure the safety of all people involved
-Provide assistance to the person in distress
-Restore or maintain peace
-Act on any law violations
-Document the incident as appropriate
This is the criteria for initiating a Marchman Act
Good faith to believe the subject is substance abuse impaired or has a co-occurring mental health disorder and, because of such impairment or disorder, the person:
1. Has lost the power of self-control because of substance abuse AND;
-Is in need of substance abuse services, and their judgement has been so impaired that they are incapable of appreciating the need for services OR
-Is likely to suffer from neglect or refuse to care for themselves, or is likely to inflict harm upon themselves/others
These are the definitions of both types of homelessness
1. Unsheltered - People who live in places not meant for human habitation
2. Sheltered - People who stay in homeless shelters or transitional housing, but do not have stable, permanent housing of their own
Seeking to intimidate the civilian population or influence the government by intimidation or coercion
What is Terrorism?