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At least three Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department personnel with ties to the Santa Clarita Valley community have died by suicide in recent days.
Ed. Note: Help is available. If you or a loved one is experiencing suicidal thoughts or ideation, please call 988 for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
At least one reported suicide was of an individual assigned to Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic, another is of an individual assigned to the Lancaster Sheriff’s Station, and the third is tied to a Monday incident at a home address in Saugus, according to sources close to the investigations.
The identities of the LASD personnel remain unavailable to the public as of Monday evening.
Anyone seeking information about mental health resources available in the Santa Clarita Valley can look here for a list of resources. There are 24-hour phone numbers available. In the event of an emergency, 911 should always be the first call. Those looking to speak with someone can call:
- 988 for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
- 1-800-854-7771 for the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health
- 1-800-784-2433 for the Treatment Advocacy Center
- 661-259-9439 for the SCV Child & Family Center
- 661-288-4800 for the Santa Clarita Valley Mental Health Center
- 661- 765-8445 for Insight Treatment Santa Clarita
- 661-347-6307 for Guardians SCV
- 800-852-8336 for the Teen Line Peer Suicide Prevention 6-10 p.m. or text TEEN to 839863
- 1-866-488-7386 for the Trevor Project LGBTQ suicide helpline
Ed. Note: This is a breaking news story; the KHTS Newsroom will add more information as it becomes available.
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Please include Copline.org as a resource for those in crisis. It is a nationwide non-profit organization that offers a 24/7 crisis hotline for law enforcement and their families. It is staffed entirely by retired officers and is 100% confidential.
This is so sad . I feel the democrats with their idiotic policies have blood on their hands ! Forcing deputies to work an inhumane amount of overtime , soft on crime approaches ,defunding the police, and criminalizing deputies has led to this !!!! Moral is at an all time low ! As a wife of a deputy , I can tell you that all of this overtime rips marriages apart and does serious damage to kids who are left without seeing their dads or moms all week !!! When they finally get a day off they are too exhausted to do anything !!!!
Why do Republicans see everything single thing in life thru political glasses? I just don’t get it. And by the way, why would democrats want cops to work overtime? Defund the police anyone?
I absolutely agree with you. Just one of the reasons I dislike republicans.
This has to be related to internal leadership and external leadership. Unfortunately we’ve ALL seen the shit policies that the “leaders” of law enforcement, the cities, counties, California and the country have enacted regarding law enforcement be publicly hanging them to dry when criminals are walking free. I hope Biden, Luna, Moore, GasCOn, the board of supervisors & Newsom along with Obama all have nightmares every night.