{"id":414463,"date":"2026-09-30T07:02:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T07:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/414463\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T07:02:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T07:02:26","slug":"police-officers-at-ucf-downtown-in-orlando-prevent-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/414463\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Officers at UCF Downtown in Orlando Prevent Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police officers at UCF Downtown in Orlando prevented a tragedy where a man was preparing to harm himself, according to local law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>According to the UCF Police Department, when officers arrived to the scene of a mental health call at UCF Downtown, they found a man in immediate danger who was preparing to harm himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to their quick actions, teamwork, and calm decision-making, the officers were able to safely intervene and prevent a tragedy,\u201d the UCF Police Department posted. \u201cThe individual \u2013 who is not affiliated with the university \u2013 was connected with the resources, care, and support he needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/b4370751.assetcdn.net\/2.0\/4370751\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/UCFDowntown_officerspreventtragedy2.jpg?lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-292010 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/UCFDowntown_officerspreventtragedy2-1024x508.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"345\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If a community member did not reach out to law enforcement, the situation could have ended differently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are grateful to the community member who recognized that something was wrong and immediately called for help,\u201d the UCF Police Department continued. \u201cHad they not spoken up, or had officers not arrived when they did, the situation could have ended very differently. We are proud of Officers Colvin and McDaniel for their quick response, compassion, and commitment to helping others during someone\u2019s time of greatest need.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police officers at UCF Downtown in Orlando prevented a tragedy where a man was preparing to harm himself,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2318,37927,1598,634,21972,139,141,140,132,32376,7219,164235],"class_list":["post-414463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-downtown","tag-harm","tag-law-enforcement","tag-local","tag-officers","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-police","tag-tragedy","tag-ucf","tag-ucf-downtown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}