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Jersey Shore Police Officer Uses Crisis Training To Help 'Person In Distress': Prosecutor Jersey Shore Police Officer Uses Crisis Training To Help 'Person In Distress': Prosecutor
Jersey Shore Police Officer Uses Crisis Training To Help 'Person In Distress': Prosecutor “You’ve got to let me help you,” were some of the first words that a Hazlet police officer used to help a suicidal person in crisis, authorities said. The officer, who had been part of a recent Prosecutor’s Office Crisis Intervention Training (CIT), used the lessons that he learned only weeks earlier to successfully help a person in distress attempting to harm themselves, according to Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Lori Linskey. On June 29, at 8:58 a.m., Hazlet police received a 9-1-1 call for a person in crisis. The person was in their vehicle threatening to har…

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