FREE Training for Police Dispatchers
Recovering Missing Persons:
Disabilities / Dementia for Dispatchers
About This Course
When someone with dementia or someone with autism gets lost, it's not your typical missing persons case. Their conditions cause them to elope in predictable ways and this course will give you insights to recover them quicker, safer, and with fewer resources.
This course will prepare you to understand what elopement is, ask tailored questions about missing persons with disabilities and dementia, give you practical techniques to de-escalate callers, and provide resources to help caregivers prevent future elopement.
This course is currently available and free to any dispatcher within California. Due to grant terms, we may not permit people who are not affiliated with a law enforcement agency in California.
POST CCN: 1239-33361
What You'll Learn in This Course
Best Practices in Recovering Vulnerable Missing Persons
Disability- and dementia-specific questions
How to communicate with parents and caregivers
Understand elopement behaviors
Be Prepared
Respond to your missing persons calls from a position of advantage:
Resources
Planning
Coordinate your response
FREE RESOURCE FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT
Prevent Future Elopement: FREE Resources to Provide Caregivers
Elopement Prevention Toolkit: Dementia
Topics include: Elopement risk factors, prevention strategies, locative device guidance, orientation signage, law enforcement interaction strategies, informational forms for when they do elope.
Elopement Prevention Toolkit: Disabilities
Topics include: Elopement risk factors, prevention strategies, locative device guidance, orientation signage, law enforcement interaction strategies, informational forms for when they do elope.
Kit de Herramientas para la Prevención de Fugas para la Demencia
Kit de Herramientas para la Prevención de Fugas: Discapacidades Desarrollos
The Quick Details of this Training
2-Hour Zoom Course
Funded through the Kevin and Avonte Grant (FREE to You)
Who Is This Course For?
Police Dispatchers
What Categories Do We Focus On?
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Dementia
Elopement Behavior
Questioning Techniques
Resources
And so much more!
Frequently Asked Questions
How is this free?
This training is brought to officers through the Kevin and Avonte Grant.
Why Get Safe?
We have been around for decades. We work with communities and law enforcement. This allows us to hear the complaints from both sides. We use this information in our training to bridge the divide between cop and community. We know that all cops are also parts of community, but not all communities have an understanding of our cops. We give a voice to community and law enforcement using the training and experience of our instructors that is quite extensive.
