SINGAPORE, Oct 4 \u2014 A 42-year-old man was apprehended after he was rescued from the aircon ledge of a flat in Bukit Panjang this morning.<\/p>\n
The police and Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) told AsiaOne they received a call for assistance at Block 635B Senja Road, where a man was spotted standing on the air-con ledge of an eighth-floor unit.<\/p>\n
Two photographs seen by AsiaOne show at least one fire engine, a rescue tender and at least three police cars parked along a driveway near the block.<\/p>\n
SCDF deployed a safety life air pack as a precautionary measure when they arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n
As the man was assessed to possibly pose a danger to himself, the police activated officers from their Crisis Negotiation Unit, while SCDF deployed its Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (DART).<\/p>\n
DART rescuers rappelled down from the unit above and brought the man to safety at about 9.50am.<\/p>\n
The 42-year-old was taken conscious to hospital and subsequently apprehended under Section 7(1) of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) Act.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Under the Act, the police have the power to arrest anyone believed to be a danger to himself or other people. \u2014 AsiaOne<\/p>\n
Singapore helplines:<\/p>\n
Samaritans of Singapore: 1767 (24 hours) \/ 9151-1767 (WhatsApp)Singapore Association for Mental Health: 1800-283-7019Care Corner Counselling Centre (Mandarin): 1800-353-5800National mindline: 1771 (24 hours) \/ 6669-1771 (WhatsApp)Silver Ribbon: 6386-1928We Care Community Services: 3165-8017 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SINGAPORE, Oct 4 \u2014 A 42-year-old man was apprehended after he was rescued from the aircon ledge of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[316924,49,48,316927,84,393,117738,394,316926,316925,3849],"class_list":["post-920341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-bukit-panjang","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crisis-negotiation-unit","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mental-health-act","tag-mentalhealth","tag-scdf","tag-senja-road","tag-singapore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}