Madison Police Department Impact on 40% reduction in the jail?

CALLS AT DESIGNATED RESPITE FACILITIES

Remember that the best way to stay safe at these facilities is to never go inside. Do your best to find alternatives to handling these calls inside. Call the complainants or ask them to come out to you.

If you do need to go inside, you should wear your half face respirator and keep an extra N95 mask on you. Wear your issued eye protection. You will likely see MFD wearing isolation gowns in this environment. You can enter these facilities and still be protected. A good alternative is to wear MPD uniform outerwear, as this is removable and simplifies later decontamination. Tactics always take precedence over medicine. If the dynamics of the call indicate it is safe to wear an isolation gown, you may do so. If you do, be sure that you are readily identifiable as a police officer, by wearing a uniform hat or traffic vest.

You should also wear gloves inside these facilities. Be mindful of what you touch with contaminated gloves. Safely remove gloves before touching uncontaminated spaces or objects, like the steering wheel or your personal phone.

These medical respite facilities are high risk for exposure. After entering one of these facilities, you should decontaminate your uniform:

• • • Put on clean gloves.
    • Doff MSA 1⁄2 face respirator, remove filters and decon using the 3 bucket station. Try to limit soaking the elastic straps so you can don the mask again on the next call.
    • Enter locker room with a Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2) spray bottle and proceed to the shower/tiled area.
    • Don a fresh set of disposable gloves and then don an N95 disposable mask.
    • Remove non-contaminated items (things that were not exposed at all) from inside your pockets first with the clean gloves and set these items aside.
    • Remove duty belt, footwear, outer vest, all personal items from shirt, including pens, badge, brass, handcuff keys, cell phone, and anything else that was exposed.
    • Spray the above items with the H2O2 solution until damp enough to feel moist but not saturated.
    • You should wipe down firearms, Tasers, radios and other electronics with a cloth or rag dampened with H202 spray. This reduces the risk of damaging internal parts.
    • Allow all items to air dry. Note that the air-drying is an important part of the disinfection process.
    • Remove uniform pants and uniform shirt. If the employee was wearing a full-length raincoat (that was zipped/buttoned completely during the contact) or an isolation gown, then there is no need to remove uniform items that were covered by these items. Instead, you should carefully remove the raincoat (or isolation gown), place it in a garbage bag (or similar) and clean the coat at the district station. Isolation gowns should be thrown away. Use the same process above prior to wiping down your raincoat.
    • Any other uniform items not covered by a raincoat or isolation gown should be cleaned as prescribed.
    • Leave shower area and change disposable nitrile gloves
    • Get dressed in a new, non-contaminated uniform.
    • Once equipment that was sprayed down above is dry, put back on.
    • Spray down the shower and tile rea where dirty equipment was with H2O2.
    • Remove gloves, wash hands, arms and face with soap and water. Wash your hands for at least 20 seconds.

Squad Cleaning

• • • Once the full uniform doffing process is complete, officers should sanitize their vehicles BEFOREsitting back down in the squad. This is the same squad cleaning process that the employee completes at the beginning and end of their shift.

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RESPITE FACILITY LOCATIONS:

-Howard Johnson (3841 E Washington Ave) for the High Risk Population, i.e., “60+ YOA, underlying health issues, or pregnant,” to divert from the shelters.

-Quality Inn (1754 Thierer Road) for Medical Respite (referred from a hospital, test results pending or tested positive, or showed symptoms and told to isolate)

-The Warner Park Community Center (1625 Northport Drive) for healthy single men.

All have onsite security. Security staff should be working with hotel management if they will be removing a guest from the property due to violations of the agreement. Involvement of law enforcement in that removal process should be a last resort, but MPD will be called support those efforts as a last resort. Officers may be able to gain voluntary compliance in addressing behavior, particularly in the case of those in need of medical respite, or, in getting a guest to leave.

• • • Officers should not respond to manage non-criminal behavior of guests of the hotel. MPD will become involved if criminal activity is reported.
    • If a response is needed, consider ways to engage or communicate with the involved parties by phone or outside, if feasible.
    • Officers may consider charging “Unlawful Trespass – After Notification: c.o 23.07(2)” or “Criminal Trespass: 943.14” if their actions warrant.
    • To prevent unnecessary contact, MFD will respond and assess if LE is required on all medical calls to these locations.

The behavioral agreement that all guests sign is attached as addendum C at the end of this document.

CPR/CCR and PULSELESS NONBREATHERS

The virus that causes COVID-19 is primarily transferred between people via respiratory droplets. Because life saving measures agitate the airway, they are high risk procedures because they aerosolize the virus. While the most high risk procedures are advanced airway interventions performed by MFD and hospitals, both CPR and CCR put responding officers at a high risk for exposure.

Make sure you secure your half face respirator, put on eye protection, and wear gloves before performing chest compressions. Also note that during the pandemic, due to the need for us to wear respiratory protection, you should only perform CCR, even in situations that would normally call for CPR (overdoses, drownings, children, etc.). Do not attempt rescue breaths of any sort during the pandemic.

WARRANTS, BOOKING and ARRESTS

In an attempt to reduce jail bookings for public health reasons, officers have been granted additional discretion when encountering individuals with certain arrests warrants. Due to an emergency court order, if officers encounter someone with an arrest warrant, they may exercise discretion and release the individual under certain circumstances:

· The officer is able to obtain up-to-date contact information for the individual.
· The warrant is for a misdemeanor (non-domestic); child support, or the warrant is for a class H or class I felony that is solely property or drug-related.
· Cases charged under chapter 940, chapter 948 or felony OMVWI cases are excluded.

The order does not require that the individual be released if the above criteria are met; it simply allows officers to exercise discretion. Officers choosing to exercise discretion under these circumstances should complete a report and indicate that it should be routed to DCSO; the warrant will be considered served and DCSO will follow-up on locating the individual after the current emergency order is no longer in effect. Please contact a supervisor with any questions about application of these.

The text of the Presiding Judge’s order is at the end of this document in Addendum B

OWI INTOXIMETER PRECAUTIONS

• • • Continue to conduct breath alcohol tests as usual per your agency’s policy.
    • The risk of virus transmission associated with conducting a breath test is like the risk associated with any face to face interaction, such as a traffic stop.
    • Thorough handwashing is the best way to prevent the spread of viruses when we must interact with others. When handwashing facilities are not accessible and hand sanitizer is used instead, please do so away from the EC/IR II instrument. Hand sanitizer vapor in the environment of the breath test instrument may cause ‘high blank’ or ‘check ambient conditions’ notifications.
    • Since the breath test mouthpiece is sterile, sealed, and single use, there is no additional risk associated with providing a sample. Mouthpieces should be replaced between samples and disposed of after use.
    • The instrument keyboard, exterior of the breath tube, and all other frequently touched surfaces should be carefully cleaned with a disinfecting wipe. Do not use spray disinfectants. If vapor from the disinfecting wipe cases a ‘high blank’ or ‘check ambient conditions’ notification, wait a few minutes before attempting to use the instrument again. The instrument will not complete a test if alcohol is detected during the blank checks.

BOOKING PROCEDURES AT THE DANE COUNTY JAIL

“The Dane County Jail is not refusing any arrests at this time, including municipal and misdemeanor charges. In an effort to promote wellness for their staff and inmate population, the Sheriff’s Office is strongly encouraging officers to use discretion and find alternate means of enforcement action if possible” – Chief Deputy Hook 3/28/2020