Agencies Implementing ICAT

The following agencies have notified PERF that they are implementing ICAT as part of their training curriculum:

Alabama

• Florence Police Department

Arizona

• El Mirage Police Department
• Mesa Police Department
• Phoenix Police Department
• Sedona Police Department

California

• Antioch Police Department
• BART Police Department
• BART police announce policy reforms amid Black Lives Matter movement (Daily Californian, June 19, 2020)
• Eureka Police Department
• Local law enforcement agencies take multi-day course on defusing critical incidents (Eureka Police Department, May 16, 2019)
• Hercules Police Department
• Numbers show police training drill may be causing unnecessary deaths (NBC Bay Area, October 26, 2017)
• Indio Police Department
• Lodi Police Department
• Lodi police focus on non-lethal tactics in training (Lodi News-Sentinel, March 20, 2018)
• Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office
• Monterey Police Department
• Novato Police Department
• Riverside County Sheriff's Department
• Riverside Police Department
• Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office
• Santa Rosa Police Department
• Watsonville Police Department

Colorado

• Boulder Police Department
• Denver Police Department
• Thornton Police Department
• University of Colorado Boulder Police Department

Connecticut

• Bridgeport Police Department

District of Columbia

• Georgetown University Law Center Department of Public Safety
• Metropolitan Police Department

Florida

• Charlotte County Sheriff's Office
• Daytona Beach Police Department
• Delray Beach Police Department
• Fort Walton Beach Police Department
• North Miami Police Department
• Palm Beach County School District Police Department
• Punta Gorda Police Department
• Tampa Police Department
• Volusia County Sheriff's Office
• Volusia County, Fla., Sheriff’s Office uses Scottish tactics to de-escalate high-stress situations (The Municipal, November 28, 2020)
• A Florida sheriff adopted Scottish police training. Now his deputies use force less often. (NBC News, June 24, 2020)

Georgia

• Chatham County Police Department
• Conyers Police Department
• Conyers Police participate in Crisis Response Training made available through grant funding (The Citizens, March 1, 2022)
• Gwinnett County Police Department

Illinois

• Carol Stream Police Department
• Chicago Police Department
• Decatur Police Department
• Elgin Police Department
• Elgin police report more minor use of force in 2016 (Suburban Chicago Daily Herald, March 17, 2017)
• Naperville Police Department
• Northeastern Illinois University Police Department

Indiana

• Anderson Police Department
• 2 APD officers get de-escalation training (Anderson Herald Bulletin, August 28, 2022)
• Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department
• IMPD begins new training program on de-escalating encounters with erratic civilians (FOX 59 Indianapolis, March 10, 2021)
• Indiana University Police Department
• Richmond Police Department
• West Lafayette Police Department

• WLPD to hire social worker to accompany officers (Purdue Exponent, November 12, 2020)

Iowa

• Des Moines Police Department
• Mason City Police Department

Kansas

• Wichita Police Department
• Wichita Police Dept. launches new training program (KWCH Wichita, November 3, 2023)

Kentucky

• Louisville Metro Police Department
• LMPD officers to complete use of force training for new year (WLKY Louisville, January 3, 2019)

Louisiana

• Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office
• Lafayette Police Department
• Louisiana State University Eunice Police Department
• University of Louisiana at Lafayette Police Department

Maryland

• Anne Arundel County Police Department
• Baltimore Police Department
• Baltimore among 7 pilot cities to give officers ICAT training (WBAL-TV 11, March 2, 2017)
• Baltimore County Police Department
• Howard County Police Department
• Hyattsville Police Department
• Johns Hopkins University Campus Safety and Security
• Maryland-National Capital Park Police
• Maryland State Police
• Montgomery County Police Department
• Prince George's County Police Department
• Prince George's County Sheriff's Office
• Rockville City Police Department

Massachusetts

• Arlington Police Department
• Braintree Police Department
• Cambridge Police Department
• Chelsea Police Department
• Dedham Police Department
• Harvard University Police Department
• Littleton Police Department
• How Littleton police are learning to deescalate dangerous situations (Wicked Local, June 10, 2025)
• MIT Police

Michigan

• Ann Arbor Police Department
• Lansing Police Department
• Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine- Michigan- Crisis Intervention System

Minnesota

• Columbia Heights Police Department
• Metro Transit Police Department
• Minneapolis Police Department
• Red Wing Police Department
• Rochester Police Department
• Three Rivers Park Police

Missouri

• Columbia Police Department
• Washington University Police Department

Nebraska

• Alliance Police Department
• University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police Department

Nevada

• Nevada University Police Services, Northern Command
• Passage of AB3 an important step in building trust with our police departments (NEVADAToday, August 6, 2020)

New Jersey

• All municipal police agencies

• N.J. police are being retrained on how to handle crises. Here’s what they’ll be taught. (NJ.com, August 2, 2021)

• Camden County Police Department
• How N.J.'s most dangerous city is training to stop police shootings (NJ.com, August 22, 2017)
• De-escalation training helps set higher policing standards in Camden County (NJ Pen, July 13, 2017)
• Camden County Police providing ICAT training (Southern New Jersey Today, July 13, 2017)
• Gloucester Township Police Department
• Pine Hill Police Department
• Rutgers University Police Department

New York

• Buffalo Police Department
• Buffalo Police trained in new de-escalation tactics (WKBW, March 2, 2021)
• Nassau County Police Department
• New York City Police Department

• Amid rising police violence, New York City police to train entire force in de-escalation (Washington Post, June 23, 2021)

• Suffolk County Police Department
• Wallkill Police Department

North Carolina

• Apex Police Department
• Asheville Police Department
• Asheville police train to de-escalate situations (Asheville Citizen-Times, March 14, 2017)
• Burlington Police Department
• Concord Police Department

• Concord Police Chief issues statement on racial inequality (WBTV, June 5, 2020)

• Durham Police Department
• Fayetteville Police Department
• Greensboro Police Department
• Jacksonville Police Department
• JPD reduces use of force with goal to ‘preserve life’ (Jacksonville Daily News, April 5, 2019)
• Salisbury Police Department
• New strategies take hold in fight against crime; Salisbury and Rowan County agencies adapting (Salisbury Post, July 21, 2017)

North Dakota

• Fargo Police Department

• Fargo Police Host PERF ICAT De-escalation Training (City of Fargo, October 28, 2021)

Ohio

• Akron Police Department
• Akron police start new training to defuse critical incidents (ABC 5 Cleveland, March 26, 2025)
• Dayton Police Department

• Dayton Police hold ICAT training as result of police reform recommendations (WDTN, January 14, 2022)

• University of Cincinnati Police Department

Oregon

• Oregon State University Department of Public Safety
• Portland Police Department

• Outside instructors provide new de-escalation training to Portland police (Oregonian, May 4, 2017)

Pennsylvania

• Carlisle Police Department
• Dickinson College Department of Public Safety
• Susquehanna Township Police Department

South Carolina

• Charleston Police Department
• National police deescalation programs being used in Upstate (CBS 7 South Carolina, March 22, 2018)
• Columbia Police Department
• Columbia police give exclusive look at de-escalation training (WIS News 10 Columbia, August 29, 2024)

Tennessee

• Cookeville Police Department
• Metropolitan Nashville Police Department
• University of Tennessee Police Department

Texas

• Austin Police Department
• Balch Springs Police Department
• Brownsville Independent School District Police Department
• Cedar Park Police Department
• Cedar Park police officers learn techniques to avoid use of force (KXAN-TV, March 20, 2017)
• Corpus Christi Police Department
• Fort Worth Police Department
• Fort Worth police officers undergo "use of force" training (Fox 4 Dallas-Fort Worth, January 31, 2018)
• Harris County Sheriff's Office
• Nederland Police Department
• University of Texas Police at Houston

Utah

• Draper Police Department
• New police training addresses use-of-force, transparency with public (ABC 4 Utah, January 10, 2017)

Vermont

• Burlington Police Department
• BPD training teaches peaceful deescalation (Burlington Free Press, September 15, 2016)

Virginia

• Albemarle County Police Department
• Danville Police Department

• New Danville PD training emphasizes non-violent ways to handle crisis situations (WFXR, August 7, 2020)

• Harrisonburg Police Department

• Harrisonburg police officers continue ‘ICAT’ training (WHSV, September 15, 2020)

• Martinsville Police Department
• University of Richmond Police Department

Washington

• Yakima Police Department

Wisconsin

• Beloit Police Department
• Beloit Police Department chief looks back on first year (Beloit Daily News, May 10, 2017)
• Eau Claire Police Department
• Eau Claire Police implement quarterly training on mental health crisis situations (WEAU 13 Eau Claire, March 18, 2021)
• Janesville Police Department
• Decisions in seconds: Janesville police train for options in deadly-force situations (Janesville Gazette Xtra, February 6, 2020)
• La Crosse Police Department
• Practice makes perfect: La Crosse Police train on non-lethal procedures (News8000.com, May 9, 2022)
• Madison Police Department

• How has policing changed in Madison since George Floyd’s death? (Channel 3000, May 25, 2021)

• Sheboygan Police Department
• University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department
• New police training focuses on de-escalation in crisis incidents (ABC27 Madison, June 5, 2018)
• University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Police Department

Wyoming

• Wyoming Highway Patrol

Canada

• Delta Police Department (British Columbia)

Other

• Amtrak Police Department

Additional News Stories

• Police changing response to ‘suicide by cop’ calls (WOOD Grand Rapids, July 24, 2023)
• New techniques train officers to de-escalate encounters (CBS Minnesota, November 15, 2017)

If your agency is implementing ICAT and is not on this list, please contact Jason Cheney at [email protected].