With the number of people with mental health issues booked into jails increasing each year, crisis intervention training is becoming increasingly important for corrections officers. Find out how the training can help officers identify inmates in crisis in this tip from risk management expert and Lexipol co-founder Gordon Graham.
The value of crisis intervention training for corrections officers
With the number of people with mental health issues booked into jails increasing each year, crisis intervention training is becoming increasingly important
Gordon Graham has been actively involved in law enforcement since 1973. He spent nearly 10 years as a very active motorcycle officer while also attending Cal State Long Beach to achieve his teaching credential, USC to do his graduate work in Safety and Systems Management with an emphasis on Risk Management, and Western State University to obtain his law degree. In 1982 he was promoted to sergeant and also admitted to the California State Bar and immediately opened his law offices in Los Angeles.