Denver Sheriff Department says audit supports its focus on mental health services...even if it needs to define what 'success' looks like.
"We agreed with all of the recommendations in the audit because we know that the work we’re doing aligns with the findings of the audit," says Sheriff Elias Diggins, who had been with the department for decades before Mayor Michael Hancock tapped him for the top spot in July 2020.and Denver County Jail, is one of Colorado's largest psychiatric providers and certainly the largest one in Denver.
While the audit is generally positive, it notes that the Denver Sheriff Department"needs to develop a strategy and needs to define what success looks like for its mental health programs." Adds Diggins,"Ninety-seven percent of the people that are coming into our custody are coming back to the community, and we want to ensure that they have the best care while they’re here, including mental health care."Courtesy of the Denver Sheriff Department
A total of 35 people were admitted to the program over that year; four of the other five had their charges dropped, while one person was sent to outpatient restoration.is 263 days. The average in the Denver program was 68 days per person. "We’ve been looking at some preliminary data and have seen that there’s a strong need for this team, and have seen the deputies and sworn staff use the crisis response team exactly how we’ve anticipated," Johnson says. On average, deputies have called the crisis response team over eighteen times a day.
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