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Patrol Officers De-Escalate Armed Man In Crisis

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Date Published: 11 Mar 2021, Last Updated: 15 May 2025

Date: Thursday, March 11, 2020File: 21-9595Victoria, BC – Patrol officers successfully de-escalated an armed man in a mental health crisis at a medical facility late this morning.Shortly before 11:30 a.m. Patrol officers were called to a Victoria medical facility for a report of a man in a mental health crisis armed with a knife and threatening people. Several officers attended immediately and located the man outside of the medical facility, holding the knife to his own neck.Officers worked for several minutes to de-escalate the man, using crisis intervention and de-escalation training. The man dropped the knife and surrendered to officers.The man was brought to the hospital for a mental health assessment. No one was physically injured in the incident.

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