Sergeant Roberto Avalos and Sgt. Edward Pablos told the Suicide Prevention Committee that their mental-evaluation outreach unit is compiling detailed month-by-month and hourly data on suicide-related calls and emergency detentions through Oct. 28, 2025.

Sgt. Avalos said the unit’s year-to-date counts (Jan. 1–Oct. 28) include: 77 attempted-suicide calls; 166 attempted-suicide reports; 17 suicides resulting in death; 507 emergency-detention reports; and 645 emergency-detention calls, as presented in the meeting slide deck. He also presented a heat map showing call concentrations around hospital and central areas and a temporal analysis that highlighted heavier call volumes near 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., especially on Mondays and Fridays.

"The numbers don't lie," Sgt. Avalos said, describing the data as useful for staffing, grant applications and targeted outreach. He asked the committee to consider funding or advocacy to support four unit officers (to provide morning and afternoon coverage), a homeless coordinator assigned to Bethany House, and two transport officers who would be trained and equipped to carry out interfacility transports for people under emergency detention. Avalos noted an attorney-general opinion shifting more transport responsibility to local law-enforcement agencies.

Committee members and public-health partners discussed using the hours and map to target PSAs and outreach, and to coordinate with case managers and veterans’ services to identify callers with military histories. The committee flagged that 988 sometimes routes callers to national rather than local centers and asked that the committee’s updated local resource QR code be circulated to 988 contacts.

Limitations: The numbers were presented from departmental records and slides; the committee did not provide an independent audit of the counts during the meeting. Sgt. Avalos said some 'reports' are automated case numbers and not all reports represent confirmed attempts.