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19 <br />WORKING GROUP POLICE-INVOLVED DEADLY FORCE ENCOUNTERS RECOMMENDATIONS AND ACTION STEPS <br />HEARING SUMMARIES <br />people with mental health or disabilities, raising <br />concerns about the training of officers to recognize <br />mental health and disabilities and the protocols for <br />response. Wickelgren spoke about crisis intervention <br />training (CIT) to better equip officers to recognize <br />and respond to mental health situations. <br />The third panel was anchored by Capt. Kevin Lutz <br />of the Camden County Police Department, who <br />described a national best practice in reducing <br />police-involved deadly force encounters. Over the <br />last six years, the CCPD has reduced officer-involved <br />shootings from 65 to one per year through a number <br />of policy changes, training, and protocols, beginning <br />with a focus on sanctity of life and integrated <br />communication, assessment and tactics protocols <br />(ICAT) that help officers slow things down, back off, <br />and reduce officer-created jeopardy situations. <br />Copies of their training and protocols are provided <br />in the resources on the working group website. <br />The final presenter was again Drew Evans, superin- <br />tendent of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), <br />who described the investigative process that the BCA <br />uses for police-involved deadly force cases. <br />Invited testimony of affected families was provided <br />by several family members who detailed their <br />concerns about the causes of deadly force encoun- <br />ters, lack of emphasis on community well-being <br />and resources for the families of those killed by <br />police, and concerns about BCA investigations. <br />The hearing was closed by the co-chairs. All pro- <br />ceedings were live-streamed, recorded on video, <br />and posted to the working group website.