Police Community Engagement Board

Police Community Engagement Board 10/25/2022@ 6:31 PM | Meeting called to order by Katy Miller 2. Roll Call Dr. Scott Groesch Lexie O’Brien Chief Dale Curtis Katy Miller Emerson Smith John Buck Paul Detrick Centron Felder Sloane Carfield Tina Clark Scott (Zoom) Captain Stephen Spear (Zoom) Lt. Jillian McCoy (Zoom) 3. Review and Approve September 2022 Minutes Approval of September 2022 Minutes Motion by Dr. Scott Groesch Second by John Buck All Board members vote in favor of approval 4. Update Report from WGPD regarding Officer Wellness Lt. Jillian McCoy and Capt. Stephen Spear Chief Curtis presented a Power Point created by Lt. Josh Weber that is presented to all new officers regarding officer wellness and resources. Discussion included but was not limited to questions regarding “base line” evaluations and officer culture. Chief Curtis acknowledged that budget is always a factor and that the City provides EAP services. Lexie questioned whether federal funds could be allocated and Chief Curtis acknowledged it might be possible after a critical incident bot Lt. Jillian McCoy spoke on her training and experiences regarding Peer to Peer Counseling both as individual and group after traumatic incidences and the benefit to officers. She discussed the SAFERR model (Stabilize, Acknowledge the crisis, facilitate understanding, Encourage healthy coping, Recovery, Referral) model of traumatic event recovery for officers. Capt. Stephen Spear discussed the department investment in Peer to Peer advisory. He further discussed options through The Greater St. Louis Region CISM Association https://www.stl-cism.org/ which is comprised of law enforcement and EMS professionals, firefighters, communicators, nurses, chaplains and mental health professionals who volunteer time to make these to make services available at no cost to emergency services personnel and organizations. The CISM is contacted in one call eliminating the need to search for services in a time of crisis. Captain Spear reviewed how the CISM responded after a WGPD Officer shooting and how support was broken into multiple groups affected by the incident, he clarified that the CISM only reports back to the department if involved personnel are at risk (suicidal, advanced trauma, self-harm etc.). The CISM response is now part of department policy after a critical incident. Dr. Groesch commented on how individual treatment is addressed within the medical community and questioned how such individual incidents (drug or alcohol issues, mental health crisis) are handled in the PD. Chief Curtis expressed that each department would handle the incident per their policies (EAP etc.) but incidents that are unable to be contained to the department are referred to Missouri POST. 5. Updates from Board Members and Subcommittees Katy advised that the Nominating Committee had met and would be prepared to bring a candidate for a vote at the next meeting. Lexie advised that the Communications Committee collaborated on a document in reference to updates to the PCEB landing page (attached). Lexie reviewed the content of the document with the Board. The creation of a generic city e-mail for the Boards use was again discussed. Dr. Scott Groesch motioned that the Board approve a budgetary expense of up to $300.00 to have a city owned board e-mail address created. Katy Miller seconded the motion and all members in attendance voted in favor. The process by which a Board e-mail would be acknowledged and responded to was discussed. Emerson advised that open records requests would need to directed to the city form to ensure that the City Clerk was informed of the request. John and Lexie discussed possibly reviewing any e-mails received and creating a draft response to be reviewed. Emerson reiterated the need for the Board to put all responses through the City Clerk or Chief Curtis. Dave expressed wanting the Board to be able to respond without the oversite of the City or Chief, Emerson expressed that for questions directly of the Board that is acceptable but questions regarding police policy, tickets, officer complaints etc. are not the function of the PCEB. Consensus regarding e-mail review process was determined to need further clarification. The Communications Committee was encouraged to send the collaborative document to Jenny Starkey to move forward with landing page updates and furtherance of implementing an e-mail. Scott updated that the Ordinance and Compliance subcommittee would be meeting and would contact Jenny Starkey prior to the next PCEB meeting to discuss the formatting of the ordinance. Katy advised the Education Committee had communicated and are requesting John send them a copy of the Compassion Fatigue Survey her referenced in a previous meeting and the possibility of the survey creators to present at an upcoming PCEB meeting. Public Safety Day was discussed. Paul, John, Centron, Lexie and Kevin were all planning to attend and will send their information to Sgt. Flannery for inclusion. Council Person Emerson Smith gave a brief update of the continuing work of the City Council and the Boards and Commissions committee along with the Charter Review board. 6. Adjourn A motion to adjourn was presented by Lexie O’Brien at 7:45 PM, was seconded by Dr. Scott Groesch. and passed unanimously. The next meeting was set for November 29th at 6:30 PM prior to adjournment Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5