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Laredo police detail suicide-call trends and new mental-health outreach unit
Summary
Sergeant Amalos reported year-to-date suicide and detention figures and described a newly launched police 'mental health evaluation outreach unit' that has made home follow-ups and plans to begin in-house transports, while committee members requested district-level call breakdowns for targeted outreach.
Sergeant Amalos of the City of Royal Police Department told the Laredo Suicide Prevention Committee on Nov. 19 that police have tracked 84 attended suicide calls and 171 suicide reports for 2025 through Nov. 19, along with 534 emergency detention reports and 677 emergency detention calls. "For 2025, January 1 all the way to 11/19/2025," Amalos said, reading the year-to-date totals.
The presentation moved from totals to incident-level detail. Amalos read several November cases — including an overdose on Nov. 1, a Nov. 5 case involving a 34-year-old male, and a Nov. 5 incident in which a 25-year-old woman…
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