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    Jenna Savage, PhD

    Deputy Director
    Boston (MA) Police Department
    Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Jenna Savage, PhD, is the Deputy Director of the Boston Police Department (BPD) Office of Research and Development (ORD). Jenna oversees BPD research partnerships with local colleges and universities, as well as internal research projects initiated by ORD. Since 2010, she has coordinated the BPD’s numerous mental health-related projects—including developing and overseeing the BPD’s partnership with the Boston Emergency Services Team (BEST), where Master’s-level BEST clinicians are paired with BPD officers in an attempt to improve response to individuals experiencing mental health crises; assisting with the creation and implementation of the BPD’s 40-hour Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training; and co-chairing a Steering Committee and Subcommittee of Boston’s Community Justice Project (a Sequential Intercept Mapping initiative spearheaded by the MA Trial Court). Other responsibilities include grant writing, grant management, and responding to both internal and external information requests. Jenna received her PhD in Criminology and Justice Policy from Northeastern University in 2011, and has been working full-time in ORD since 2009.

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