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Lubbock crisis negotiator says 20-person victim services unit now handles more suicides, homicides and traffic fatalities
Summary
Andy Young, a crisis negotiator with the SWAT team, described a victim services unit of about 20 trained mental health professionals that accompanies officers to serious incidents and said the unit may expand as the city grows.
Andy Young said he is a crisis negotiator with the SWAT team and oversees a victim services unit that responds to people in crisis in Lubbock, and that the unit includes about 20 trained mental health professionals who accompany officers to suicides, homicides and traffic fatalities.
Young said the unit began with him and a handful of responders and has grown to include roughly 20 clinicians, social workers and graduate counseling students who “patrol the city just like any other officer with a radio.” He said early calls were primarily domestic…
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