Assistance provided to female officer for mental health issue, New Bedford MA

Medical Emergency

Reported: 11/13/2025 08:40 AM

New Bedford, MA

Law enforcement requested assistance at Walgreens near Purchase Street for a female officer experiencing a mental health issue. Mobile crisis services were requested but delayed until confirmation of the individual's details. Transport to a facility was likely.

Audio|Source: New Bedford Police, Fire and EMS

02:27

Transcript:

00:00

11 can you make your way to Walgreens near Purchase Street to assist MSP with a female officer?

00:11

11 control

00:13

00:15

00:17

Mayor, are you trying to reach me?

00:21

Uh, pherminus, can you make way to Walgreens near Purchase Street to assist the police with a female officer?

00:29

Go to watch.

00:33

Two,

00:35

four. Two, four.

00:42

There you want to call.

00:48

Hey, one.

00:49

32.

00:51

Sorry, there you too.

00:53

Um,

00:54

can you send mobile crisis here, please?

01:04

A fair minute, what's the nature in case they ask more questions?

01:10

Uh, change in mental.

01:13

Add one.

01:14

Control's unit 32.

01:22

31, control, stand by.

01:23

We're working on something.

01:24

I'll give us a second.

01:26

Time left.

01:33

31 to 32, I'm turning on the county street now from Soya.

01:44

21, control.

01:48

21. Control, 05, the tenant was at the back to the second o'clock.

02:03

Central's unit 21.

02:04

We told you have something for us.

02:08

21, stand by.

02:09

31, that's affirmative.

02:11

Crisis is not able to dispatch mobile crisis until we get a date of birth.

02:15

So we have to confirm her name or date of birth first.

02:19

Okay, 10-4[1]. We're, um, she's not really being too comfortable.

02:21

We'll probably end up having a transport.

02:25

That's what we're working on right now.

Police codes explained

The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:

[1]

10-4: Acknowledgment or confirmation that a message has been received and understood.

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