A real risk. The National Police of Seville was alerted that a man had barricaded himself in his home in the Sevillian neighborhood of Tiro La Línea with suicidal thoughts. The agents, who went to this place to assist him, received some threats that, if they entered his house, he would detonate several butane cylinders, so they began to work on the best way to resolve the situation.
The members of this security force contacted his sister and the psychiatric doctors who were in charge of his case and determined that there was a “real risk”, so they activated the Critical Incident Protocol, sending a negotiating team to the scene, in addition to the Special Security Operational Group.
The events occurred last week, according to the statement issued by the Police, which details that the man was a psychiatric patient with autolytic ideas who refused to open the door to the 061 doctors.
The now detained man, a psychiatric patient, was becoming increasingly violent, “even threatening to detonate several butane cylinders that he kept, if the health workers or police decided to access the interior of the home,” according to the Police. For this reason, and in order to access the home and rescue it without anyone suffering any harm, the Critical Incident Protocol was activated.
Once the man received health care from the medical teams present at the scene, he was transferred to a hospital for admission and psychiatric evaluation.
