Agencies Implementing ICAT

The following agencies are implementing ICAT as part of their training curriculum:

Alabama

• Florence Police Department

Arizona

• Mesa 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)
• Lodi Police Department
• Lodi police focus on non-lethal tactics in training (Lodi News-Sentinel, March 20, 2018)
• Monterey Police Department
• Novato Police Department
• Riverside County Sheriff's Department
• Riverside Police Department
• Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office
• Watsonville Police Department

Colorado

• University of Colorado Boulder Police Department

Florida

• Charlotte County Sheriff's Office
• Daytona Beach Police Department
• Delray Beach Police Department
• North Miami Police Department
• Punta Gorda Police Department
• Volusia County Sheriff's Office
• A Florida sheriff adopted Scottish police training. Now his deputies use force less often. (NBC News, June 24, 2020)

Illinois

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

Indiana

• Indiana University Police Department

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
• 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
• Prince George's County Police Department
• Rockville City Police Department

Massachusetts

• Arlington Police Department
• Cambridge Police Department
• Chelsea Police Department
• Dedham Police Department
• Harvard University Police Department
• MIT Police

Michigan

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

Minnesota

• Red Wing Police Department
• Rochester Police Department
• Three Rivers Park Police

Missouri

• Washington University 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

• 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

• Nassau County Police Department
• New York City Police Department Emergency Service Unit
• Wallkill Police Department

North Carolina

• 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
• 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)

Ohio

• University of Cincinnati Police Department

Oregon

• 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

South Carolina

• Charleston Police Department
• National police deescalation programs being used in Upstate (CBS 7 South Carolina, March 22, 2018)

Tennessee

• Metropolitan Nashville Police Department

Texas

• 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)

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

• 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)

• 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)
• Janesville Police Department
• Decisions in seconds: Janesville police train for options in deadly-force situations (Janesville Gazette Xtra, February 6, 2020)
• 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

Canada

• Delta Police Department (British Columbia)

Other

• Amtrak Police Department

Additional News Stories

• 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 Kevin Morison at [email protected] or (202) 454-8335.