China News Service, May 9 (Xinhua), according to the US "World Daily" report, the new coronary pneumonia epidemic continued to wreak havoc in New York, and the number of suicides has also increased than before. Lin Jiaci, a 24-year-old Chinese police officer who has been working for three years under the epidemic, successfully saved the life of a suicidal person in Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York on the 6th; Lin Jiaci said that the police officer not only arrested criminals as a law enforcer to fight crime More often, empathy is needed to save lives.
The police said that on the morning of the incident, the New York City Police 24 Branch received a report saying that at the top of a building at 74 West 92nd Street, an African-American man wanted to jump off the building to kill him. More than ten vehicles of emergency rescue units rushed to the scene, and Chinese police officer Lin Jiaci and his partner Jonathan Guillen were the first police officers to arrive at the scene.
Lin Jiaci said that he has gained more experience in communicating with suicides from the previous Crisis Intervention Training of the City Police. At the beginning, he tried to understand whether suicides are "impulsive suicide" or "non-impulsive suicide". Put yourself in the plight of the suicides as much as possible, so as to save the opportunity.
"When we arrived at the scene, he stood on the outermost side of the rooftop and told us not to approach. He was about to jump." Lin Jiaci said that he was also very nervous, but all he could do was calm down as much as possible, and wait for the partner to wait for the time. The person shifted; "He saw us coming, and he saw many rescue vehicles rushing downstairs, and he seemed to be quite sensible." Lin Jiaci and his partner tried to communicate with him for about five minutes, seeing the man intending to move his foot. Then, he hugged him and handcuffed him.
Lin Jiaci, a graduate of the City of New York City University ’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice, has now joined the city ’s police force for three years. The reason he always wanted to join the city police was because his father was Flushing 109, Queens, New York. An auxiliary police officer in the branch.
Lin Jiaci said: "More often than not, we are not only law enforcement, arresting inmates to fight crime, but also need to use professional domain knowledge, such as psychological counseling and crisis talks to save lives." (Zhang Chen)