CNT Team

Ithaca Police Department
Crisis Negotiation Team
2019 Year End Report

Mission: 

The application of Crisis Negotiation skills has consistently proven to be law enforcement's most risk effective method to achieve desired outcomes. The goal of the Ithaca Police Crisis Negotiation Team is to save lives and to resolve crisis incidents while attempting to avoid unnecessary risk to officers, citizens, victims, and subjects, through verbal communications and de-escalation.