Facebook staffer’s timely alert assists police save guy from suicide
A timely alert by an Ireland-based Facebook staffer to Delhi police saved the life span of a 27-year-old person, who was under financial stress because of the coronavirus lockdown and showing “suicidal activity” in the social media program, officials said Sunday.
The man had been posting videos on Facebook that apparently showed him getting ready to end his life and this raised a red flag on the social media giant’s network. Facebook feared that any direct contact with the man could drive him to expedite his suicide strategies, officials said.
So a company official contacted Delhi Deputy Commissioner of Police (Cyber) Anyesh Roy as the phone quantity used for the Facebook account was authorized in the national capital.
The Facebook staffer shared the details of the “suicidal activity” with Roy on his email right before 8 pm Saturday, and what started out then was a race against time to save lots of the man.
The phone number was traced to a female in east Delhi, the DCP said.
Roy reached out to Deputy Commissioner of Police (East) Jasmeet Singh plus they immediately sent a good police crew to the address but found the woman completely fine.
The case then took a wild turn when the girl told the officials the Facebook account was utilized by her spouse who had left for Mumbai fourteen days ago after a fight with her.
She also said the man was performing as a make in a small resort in Mumbai, police said.
The woman had her husband’s phone number but didn't know his address.
DCP Roy got touching his counterpart in Mumbai, DCP (Cyber) Rashmi Karandikar, but the man’s contact number was unreachable.
Karandikar said she received a good phone call from Roy about 11pm Saturday, more than three time after the matter first found light in Delhi.
“Our biggest challenge was to trace him and our priority was to reach him quickly because we were told he previously released at least four video lessons of himself preparing to end his existence by hanging. Until 12.30 am, we were stuck,” Karandikar told PTI over phone from Mumbai.
The Mumbai police then asked the man’s mom to videocall him on WhatsApp, in order that they would manage to trace his area, however the call got disconnected after an individual ring.
“The person then contacted his mom through another number and that’s how we traced his location. For an hour, one of my officers held him involved on the phone call up and attempted to convince him to not take any extreme actions,” the senior Mumbai police officer said.
By 1.30 am, a police team reached his address and counselled him.
The man told Mumbai police that he previously been under serious financial distress for a couple months because of the lockdown and that had fought along with his wife. He explained he was worried about how precisely he would have the ability to raise his lately born child and made a decision to end his lifestyle, the officer said.
