Charles Dempsey

Law Enforcement / Behavioral Health Consultant

Detective III Charles Dempsey is the Officer-in-Charge of the Administrative Training Detail, Crisis Response Support Section (CRSS) of the Los Angeles Police Department. Detective Dempsey has over thirty years of law enforcement experience in varied assignments both with the Los Angeles Police Department and the Department of Defense. Detective Dempsey has a varied educational background, which includes an Associates in Science in Nursing, a certification from the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (German), studies in Urban Geography and Foreign Languages (Spanish) and completed the Clinical Training Program, at the National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Menlo Park, California.

Detective Dempsey sought to combine his psychiatric nursing experience with his present profession in law enforcement. The assignment to the Crisis Response Support Section has afforded him the chance to provide insight from both disciplines to the daily operations of the MEU/SMART/CAMP unit and it's dealings and management of high risk persons suffering from a mental illness, who are high utilizers of emergency services, and at risk for violent encounters with law enforcement. The MEU/SMART/CAMP also engages in predictive and preventative measures to divert individuals on a pathway towards violence by utilizing strategies which focus on the prevention aspect of risk-threat management. Detective Dempsey is a member of the Innovations Sub-Committee of the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), which is charged with looking at innovative solutions in assisting those suffering from a mental illness in the State of California.

Detective Dempsey retired in January 2021.