Emergency Detentions
Emergency Detentions are USUALLY when Reid Hospital has a psychiatric patient that they need to move to another facility. Options Behavioral Health on the east side of Indianapolis is a common one, but they could be going anywhere (Bloomington, Portland, Muncie, West Lafayette, etc.) The patients almost certainly have some kind of mental disorder and should be considered especially dangerous, even though they may be mild and even appear congenial.
The process is pretty much as follows:
- Reid will apply to the courts for an order to have the patient transported to some other facility.
- Once granted the order will come in to the Civil Process Division (usually after 2:30 or 3:00).
Get the order from the Civil Process Division and read it carefully before you leave the office. Be sure the name is consistent between the application and the order, and the dates are correct. If anything is incorrect, contact the court ASAP - the courts usually close at 4:30, and sometimes the orders are the last thing they do.
- Get your transport vehicle and familiarize yourself with it
- Locking (search the transport compartments for contraband and familiarize yourself with how they lock)
- Heating and air conditioning
- Lighting (inside and out)
- Make sure there are enough shackles for the number of patients you have
- Fill the transport vehicle with fuel.
- Create a call for service
- Go to Reid hospital and park at the pull-around entrance just west of the Emergency Room. You won't be able to get into the Psych unit with your weapon, so you may want to leave it in your vehicle.
- Go in that entrance, go down the hall, and turn left to go to the elevators.
- Take the elevator to the Psych unit on the 6th floor. There are call buttons for Geriatric Psych and for the regular Psych units (you usually don't want geriatric). If you didn't leave your weapon in the car you can use the lock boxes on the 6th floor that are behind a door down and across the hall from the psych unit. The combination for that door used to be 5312 but it may have changed, in which case you'll need hospital police to get in the room.
- Once you have the patient, handcuff/shackle them, and search them. They will almost certainly not want to be shackled. Sometimes they checked themselves in voluntarily and may not understand that this transport is a court order. This often requires your best diplomacy.
- Usually when you leave the Psych Unit they will take the elevator that is in the psych unit that drops you into the ER area. You will go west, go out a door that is where the public walks in to the ER, and end up where you parked.
- Once you have the patient secured in the van, and are sure of where you are going, call the place you are taking them just to ensure they are expecting you.
- When you drop the patient off, be sure whoever takes the patient signs the paperwork and notes the date/times. Fill out the purple sheet as appropriate and turn it and the paperwork back in to the civil process division.
- Fill the transport vehicle with fuel.
- Document the names of the patients in the call for service.
Locations
Options Behavioral Health (317) 891-4051
5602 Caito Dr, Indianapolis, IN 46226.
The entrance is on the far east side of the building, so take the first left on to Caito Drive off of 56th street, then take the first left into the campus, then the first left in to the first parking lot. Stay to your right and you'll end up at the entrance.
Neuropsych of Indianapolis (317) 744-9200
6720 Parkdale Place, Indianapolis, IN 45254
This is in a complex that has an LA Fitness just to the north of it at the intersection of Parkdale Place and Shore Drive on the northwest side of Indianapolis. It is fairly non-descript one story building.
Bloomington Meadows Hospital (812) 331-8000
3600 N Prow Rd, Bloomington, IN 47404
Google will take you kind of the back way and you'll come out on the west side of the complex and turn left into the entrance.