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Laredo police present suicide-related call data, request staffing and transport officers
Summary
The Laredo Police Department’s mental evaluation outreach unit presented year-to-date counts of suicide-related calls, detailed a heat map of hotspots and hours with higher call volumes, and requested more staffing, a homeless coordinator and two transport officers to handle emergency detentions.
Sergeant Roberto Avalos and Sgt. Edward Pablos told the Suicide Prevention Committee that their mental-evaluation outreach unit is compiling detailed month-by-month and hourly data on suicide-related calls and emergency detentions through Oct. 28, 2025.
Sgt. Avalos said the unit’s year-to-date counts (Jan. 1–Oct. 28) include: 77 attempted-suicide calls; 166 attempted-suicide reports; 17 suicides resulting in death; 507 emergency-detention reports; and 645 emergency-detention calls, as…
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