A UCF Police officer was recently honored for saving a man’s life using CPR and his Crisis Intervention Training.
Corporal Adam Casebolt, the UCF police officer who saved that life, was awarded the “Central Florida’s CIT (Crisis Intervention Team) Officer of the Year 2010.”
According to a UCF press release, Casebolt and two UCF police officers arrived at a scene where a man under the influence was experiencing mental distress and appeared to be under the influence of alcohol. The man had resisted the police at first but the police responded using their CIT training and settled the man down before he agreed to be brought to a a mental health facility.
In the car ride, “the man displayed manic and depressed behaviors and banged his head against the window” and as they arrived at the facility “Casebolt realized that the man had no pulse, so he performed CPR and saved his life,” according to the release.
The UCF Police Department was also honored as the Central Florida’s CIT Police Department of the Year for 2010.
Chief Beary said in the release, “Our ultimate goals are to reduce the potential for violent encounters and incarceration and to connect people in need of professional help with appropriate community resources.”
