INSTITUTE HISTORY
The Institute for the Prevention of In-Custody Deaths, Inc. (IPICD) was founded by John G. Peters, Jr., Ph.D. in the Spring of 2005 with its sole purpose to educate interested parties about in-custody deaths. A former police administrator, police officer, and current international trainer, Dr. Peters had been teaching a one-day program that focused upon the identification and prevention of in-custody deaths as early as the 1990s, and thought it time to specialize in this area. To date, the IPICD has trained over 8000 individuals as instructors in this specialized topic, and has expanded its training programs in 2008.
IPICD Mission Statement
The Institute for the Prevention of In-Custody Deaths, Inc. is a clearinghouse, resource center, and training provider dedicated to providing interested parties with objective, timely, accurate, qualitative and quantitative information, training, and operational guidance for the prevention and management of sudden- and in-custody deaths.
IPICD INSTRUCTOR PROGRAMS: 2008
Several new (including updated) IPICD instructor and user-level programs will be launched in 2008. These include:
--Recognition, Prevention, and Management of Excited Delirium and Sudden, In-Custody Deaths (Version 3.0)
--Forensic Investigation of Excited Delirium, In-Custody Deaths, and Evidence Collection
--EMS & Excited Delirium: Recognition & Response
--Electronic Control Device Incident Analysis and Forensic Evidence Collection
--Use of Force by the Numbers™
--Investigating Use of Force by the Numbers™
--Special Populations: Response Plan and Force Managment
--EDCIT™
IPICD Staff Instructors
IPICD Staff Instructors are highly-qualified individuals who have gone through extensive subject matter training and instructor development, and are subject matter experts in the topic(s) they present. Educationally, each staff instructor has advanced training in the area (s)he teaches, has an instructor development certificate, with several Staff Instructors holding a graduate degree or working to complete one.
IPICD Specialists™
In 2006 the IPICD conducted its first Specialist™ training program, where over a dozen of experienced law enforcement trainers successfully completed a rigorous training program that qualified them to teach the IPICD Identification, Prevention, Management, and Investigation of Sudden- and In-Custody Deaths Instructor program. Since the Fall 2006, several of the IPICD Specialists have been conducting instructor programs across the United States, sharing timely, and scientifically and legally accurate information about sudden and in-custody deaths.
IPICD Annual Sudden Death Conference
The IPICD held its first annual Sudden Death Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada in November 2006, with 19 world-class medical researchers, pathologists, and other speakers presenting the latest scientific and legal information about sudden and in-custody deaths. Over 450 individuals attended the Conference that was held at the Flamingo Hotel on the famous Las Vegas Strip.
The 2007 IPICD Sudden Death Conference was held in Las Vegas, Nevada in November 2007, where the latest scientific and medical studies will be presented about sudden and in-custody deaths. The 2007 presenters were world-class medical researchers, pathologists, social scientists, and legal experts who shared timely information to those in attendance. Attendees came from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
The 3rd Annual IPICD Excited Delirium and Sudden Death Conference will be held at The Orleans Hotel (on Tropicana Avenue) on October 29-31, 2008. The latest scientific and medical studies will be presented about excited delirium, sudden and in-custody death research, in addition to research about mental illness and its association with excited delirium and sudden death. Register early, as the 2006 and 2007 Conferences were sold out!
Excited Delirium - Is Not a New Phenomenon!
- Dr. Luther Bell published in the American Journal of Insanity in 1849
"A New Form of Disease" - in 1849
"...patient's attacking anyone who approaches him with blind fury. He will struggle in the utmost desperation, irrespective of the numbers or strength of those who may be endeavoring to restrain him. [There is] no disposition to yield to an overpowering force, noticeable in some degree in the blindest fury of the most intense forms of ordinary mania. . ."
(Bell, 1849, p. 101).
Dr. Bell also noted the following symptoms:
Mind appears to comprehend the fact dimly; Pupils are either contracted or dilated; No tolerance to light; Anxious expression; Delusions are indefinite; Confused; Loathing of food. . .suspicious of food being filthy or poisoned; Low mutterings; Dull apprehension of impending danger. (Bell, 1849, p. 100)
