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6.1.D. - Page 3 <br />before paramedics. <br />Recommended Response - The City agrees with the finding. <br />Finding 6: Law enforcement officers' risk of accidental exposure to fentanyl <br />derivatives varies based on their roles and responsibilities. Narcotics units, crime <br />suppression units, SWAT teams, K-9 units, and evidence -handling units are at a <br />heightened risk of exposure. <br />Recommended Response - The City agrees with the finding. <br />Finding 7: Certain law enforcement officers and Sheriff's Forensic Lab and <br />Coroner's Office personnel are at heightened risk of exposure to fentanyl <br />derivatives. <br />Recommended Response - The City agrees with the finding. <br />Finding 8: Equipping and training officers with intranasal naloxone is <br />inexpensive and the associated costs can be absorbed into existing programs <br />and budgets. <br />Recommended Response - The City agrees with the finding. <br />Grand Jury Recommendations <br />Recommendation 1: Train and equip law enforcement officers at heightened <br />risk of exposure to fentanyl derivatives with intranasal naloxone as a minimum <br />standard of practice by December 31, 2018 <br />Proposed Response — The City agrees with the recommendation and the <br />Police Department is in the process of implementing the recommendation. <br />The Police Department is currently in the process of developing policy, <br />conducting and certifying training, and starting the process to identify resources <br />to implement an intranasal naloxone program for officers and evidence <br />technicians. Our goal is to have the program operational before December 31, <br />2018. <br />Recommendation 2: Evaluate training and equipping all law enforcement <br />officers with intranasal naloxone in order to protect themselves and the general <br />public by December 31, 2018. <br />Proposed Response — The City agrees with the recommendation and the <br />Police Department is in the process of implementing the recommendation. <br />