Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD)

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A Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) is a specialized counseling/educational session utilized with public safety employees who have experienced an unusual, abnormal, or potentially traumatic job-related event. Any event viewed as possibly traumatic by a supervisor or the affected public safety employee may warrant referral or voluntary utilization of the CISD program. For example, a public safety employee responding to the scene of a murdered child can have serious emotional repercussions for particular employees. The majority of public safety employees responding to abnormal or traumatic events only require 1-2 sessions to resolve or help manage emotional reactions. For these public safety employees, the CISD is more of an educational and preventative session vs. an in-depth therapeutic intervention.

The agency is ONLY provided with a letter confirming the employee’s attendance to the CISD appointment, which also explains the program is NOT a Fitness for Duty Evaluation. Please understand the CISD program is confidential in nature. However, confidentiality is not guaranteed in cases of danger to self or others, or situations in which children or the elderly are endangered (instances of abuse or neglect.

Helpful Resource:

International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)Officer-Involved Shooting Guidelines