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Opioids and Law Enforcement

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Policing the Front Lines of The Opioid Crisis in a COVID World

2021

How does a Drug and a Pandemic


change our community & society ?

Patrick P. Glynn
Lieutenant Detective
Commander: Special Investigations & Narcotics Units
pglynn@quincyma.gov
Presenter
Patrick P. Glynn, Lieutenant Detective
Commander: Special Investigations & Narcotics Units
Director: South Shore Drug Task Force
36 Years - Quincy Police Department
NR-Emergency Medical Technician
Governor’s Council: Sexual Assault & Domestic Violence
MPTC 1995-Present L-4 DV/SA, APP, CPR/FR,L-3 Drugs,
L-3 Legal Update, L-3 Crime Scene
2015 – Present Adjunct Faculty Eastern Nazarene College
BS Human Services / MA Criminal Justice
FBI Leeda Management Trilogy
FBI Regional Command College
Intelligence Commander School (BJA)
Narcotics Commander School (BJA)
PERF SPMI Boston #63
2013 Advocate for Action (ONDCP)
2014 Gary P. Hayes Award (PERF)
The Quincy Model !
Per ONDCP

2013
The P.E.T.E.R. Theory
5 Pillars of Life

• Prevention – Call 911

• Education – Good Sam.

• Treatment - Naloxone

• Enforcement – Yes / No

• Reduce – Fatal OD-Relapse-


Recovery-Re-Entry
Fentanyl
The Transition from Heroin
Seconds to Minutes
Minutes to Hrs

84% of Deaths
95% of seizures
Discovered in Cocaine & Meth

2021 – Fentanyl has replaced Heroin / Meth: The new kid on block in Massachusetts

Huge spike in counterfeit substances (Pills & Powder) Buyers beware !!

66% Decrease in Opioid Deaths The 1st Year L.E. Naloxone was introduced
Naloxone formulations

Nasal with NEW: Nasal Auto-injector Intramuscular


separate Spray Injection
atomizer “Single-Step”
“Multi-step”*
The Quincy Recovery Model

Hospital 5

2 Transition Facility Home Visit

L.E. 1
Naloxone 6 Community

Treatment Facility

Addressing The Opioid Overdose with a


Multi-Disciplinary Approach
New Tools
&
Concerns !
Enhanced Laws
est. 2018
Protective Custody Law Options Enhanced Protective Custody
(Alcohol Specific) (Any Substance)
• Detain & Secure Individual • Purpose is to protect person
or public from injury
• 1st (Detox) • Assist EMS in securing for
transport to hospital ONLY !
• 2nd (Home / ? Family) • L.E. involvement ends at
Hospital !!
• Non Criminal
• 3rd (Police Station Cell)
4 hrs min. 12 hrs
max.
Harm Reduction V. Reality
• Home Safety Visits #450 The Reality of Misuse
2013 through April 1, 2021

• 94% successful
2013 - OD.105 R.91 F. 26
2014 - OD.146 R.109 F. 37
• Provide resources & placements 2015 - OD.191 R.108 F. 38
2016 - OD.311 R.142 F. 37
2017 - OD.361 R.169 F. 43
• Training in Naloxone 2018 - OD.233 R.90 F. 32
2019 - OD.151 R.82 F. 24
2020 168 141 25
• Heal the family and individual 4/1/21 36 25 7

together OD=Overdose
R=Naloxone Reversal
F=Fatal Overdose
• Reduction in Collateral Crime: Re-
Entry to Family *Note not all overdoses require Naloxone*
The Re-Focus

• New Concerns • Present Terms

• Family Member / Person


• Citizen Safety
• Officer Safety • Substance Disorder

• EMS Safety • Poisoning

• Naloxone-Recovery-Re-
• K-9 Safety Entry

#Rx Summit www.NationalRxDrugAbuseSummit.org


Challenges in The
COVID World
EMS Response / L.E. Response
& Home Visit Response
PRE-COVID ACTIVE-COVID
• Universal Precautions • Complicated Precautions

• Face to Face W/SUD • Initial Phone contact

• Face to Face W/Family • Follow-up Phone contact:


resources & Joint Healing
• Resources / Joint Healing
• Explain Re-Entry & Re-
• Plan for future Re-entry Unification process
Norfolk County #637 Overdoses
Data Base
2020

• Male 444 (70%) • Female 193 (30%)

• Fatal 64 (14%) • Fatal 19 (10%)


• Non-Fatal 368 • Non-Fatal 167(86%)
(83%) • At-Risk 7 (4%)
• At-Risk 12 • Total 193(100%)
(3%)
• Total 444(100%)
**Connecting 28 communities and beyond in real time**
The Financial Cost
per Response

• Police $356.70
• Amb. $2500.00
• Fire $859.40
• Hospital $2168

• Total $5884.10
Questions !!!!

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