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Chief Flores details crisis-intervention rescue and expanding mental-health training; commission approves commendation and a hire
Summary
Chief Steven Flores reported a crisis-intervention rescue by Officer Farfan, described an expanding mental-health training program, and the commission voted to place a letter of commendation in the officer’s file and to approve hiring a replacement for Corporal Ron Olson.
Chief Steven Flores told the Saint John Police Commission on Feb. 11 that the department responded to multiple incidents in December and January and described a Feb. 5 crisis-intervention call in which Officer Farfan assisted a man who was contemplating suicide.
Flores said the officer escorted the man from Lake Hills Drive, provided resources, and confirmed later that the subject arrived at the Indiana Center for Recovery in Mishawaka for treatment. Flores read an email from the subject praising the officer: “Dear Officer Farfan, I will see you when I get…
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