In September 2017, the Fort Worth Police Department created the Mental Health Crisis Intervention Team or CIT.
Currently, the Mental Health Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) is comprised of six (6) specially trained and TCOLE certified Mental Health Peace Officers. Each officer is assigned a patrol division and is under the direction of a Corporal and a Sergeant
CIT coordinates in-home follow-up visits with mental health consumers. Alongside Tarrant County law liaisons, our officers ensure that these consumers are receiving continuous care for their diagnosed mental illness. This cooperative effort between the FWPD CIT and Tarrant County MHMR is intended to reduce the calls for service by patrol officers to incidents involving mental health consumers and to reduce the threat of potential violence associated with people who suffer from mental illness.
The primary purpose of the Mental Health Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) is to reduce the hazards associated with interactions between law enforcement and people suffering from mental illness as well as proactively engaging mental health consumers who pose a threat to the community as a whole.
The secondary purpose of CIT is to reduce return calls for service related to mental health consumers, ultimately freeing patrol officers to provide better service to the community.